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exaggerated). While "transporting" Filemón to jail, he discovers the drunkard had found his pin at the ravine, and even though he had planned to let him go after buying his silence with money and alcohol, he kills him in cold blood and leaves him on the side of the road.
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Vargas happily accepts, seeing it as the beginning of a promising political career. He and his wife Gloria are initially elated at the designation, but their excitement quickly turns to disappointment when they arrive at San Pedro, an impoverished
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electrical lighting in the town (under promise of a 50-50 business partnership), and lodges him at his home. Doña Lupe, fed up at Vargas's ever increasing demands for money and his indulging freely of her girls' services, hires a
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president the town has ever had". López arrives in the town, having fled into the countryside after having orchestrated a failed attempt on a political rival's life, and demands Vargas give him the money he has made.
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offers him a large sum of money if he can look the other way while she runs her business. Initially hesitant, he ends up pocketing the money, marking the beginning of his descent into corruption.
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