Of 7 sailors, only one survived to tell the story. Year 1955. A Colombian warship went from the USA. to Cartagena. The military said a storm had swept seven men off deck. The problem for the Navy was that after the sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco appeared who told the truth: There was no storm. Simply the military had loaded the ship with a scandalous contraband. So much that it could hardly be afloat.
That ship burst with refrigerators, motorcycles, televisions and washing machines. The ill-disposed cargo made it scuttle to port, and the sailors were ordered to sleep and walk on the opposite side to compensate for the imbalance. Then came a wave that swept the smuggled deck and dragged the sailors who were there into the water.
Velasco grabbed onto a raft that had fallen from luck. Due to the overload, the ship could not perform any rescue maneuver and a wave of waves swallowed its companions. When the ship left, Velasco said it looked like a submarine that had just left the bottom. "I was dripping water everywhere." He spent days in the midst of thirst and loneliness, scorched by the sun. The seagulls arrived and one of them began to peck at a wounded knee. Velasco, hungry and thirsty for 7 days, allowed her to take confidence, grabbed her and killed her, tried to drink her blood, but that bloody mess of feathers was unbearable.
After 10 days, the man saw a beach, swam to it, was rescued by locals and taken to one and another hospital until he arrived in Bogotá. The president decorated him and declared him a hero.
Then, Velasco told the truth to a hospital doctor who was not a doctor: Gabriel García Márquez was disguised in a white coat and stethoscope around his neck. Gabo told the story in El Espectador. He did so in several installments and discovered that the ship was not sunk by any non-existent storm but by the corruption of the National Navy.
Thousands of people dawned at the doors of the newspaper to buy a copy and read the story. The police dispersed them with tear gas bombs. In the end the government closed the newspaper and Gabo escaped into exile.
The book is called Story of a shipwrecked man who spent ten days adrift on a raft without eating or drinking, who was proclaimed hero of the country, kissed by the queens of beauty, made rich by publicity, then hated by the government and forgotten forever.
In chess, too, the truth comes out. Here the black lady is also overburdened and pays the consequences:
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