Chapter 20: A Visit From Carlos
Chapter 20
A Visit From Carlos
Carlos read the paper while he sipped his morning coffee. Soon the children would be down to share melons and berries with him, then Carlos would have another cup of coffee with Marianna. He did not like reading the news, as it was seldom good, but for business reasons he had to. A business man must know what was going on in the world, and drugs were a very big business. Before setting the paper down he read the entertainment section to see which celebrities the Americans were fawning over this week, who was in favor and who was falling. American newspapers dedicated as much space to entertainment as news; in fact, as he thought about it, they weren’t newspapers at all, just entertainment papers.
As he drained his cup, a sm
