Several weeks after the strike things changed, but just to remain the same. For someone who has been working in these large port workshops for a long time, I can say that it has always been this way and we have never had peace. The gangs have fought over this place not because of what is done here, but rather what its geographical position facilitates. Being so close to the docks, all the liquor smuggling passes through here, is packaged and leaves like the newspapers of the day in the early hours of the morning. That's why we have seen "headquarters" pass by of all the passports that walk in this city: Irish, Italians, Russians and now the Portuguese, who send Joao the Brazilian, their favorite bully. He enters our workshop just as the other previous thugs entered: laughing and looking haughtily at others, and always caressing his pistol on his waist. There is no peace, nor will there be. We stand aside and bet to see which nationality will be the gang that will come after this one that is harassing us now.
Varias semanas después de la huelga las cosas cambiaron, pero para seguir igual. Para uno que lleva tiempo trabajando en estos grandes talleres del puerto, puedo decir que siempre se ha mantenido así y nunca hemos tenido paz. Las pandillas se han peleado por este lugar no por lo que aquí se hace, si no lo que facilita su posición geográfica. Al estar tan cerca de los muelles, todo el contrabando de licores pasa por aquí, se empaqueta y sale como la prensa del día en horas de la madrugada. Por eso hemos visto pasar "jefaturas" de todos los pasaportes que caminan en esta ciudad: irlandeses, italianos, rusos y ahora los portugueses, que mandan a Joao el brasileño, su matón preferido. El entra a nuestro taller tal como entraron los demás matones anteriores: riendo y mirando altaneramente a los demás, y siempre acariciando su pistola en la cintura. No hay paz, ni la habrá. Nosotros nos apartamos y apostamos a ver de cuál nacionalidad será la pandilla que vendrá después de ésta que nos acosa ahora.
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