Manuel estaba con la cabeza baja, mirando el interminable suelo, con una mirada como si el peso del mundo entero estuviese en sus hombros, sus hijas solo lo miraban y comentaban entre ellas para saber si alguna de ellas tenía conocimiento de la razón que producía este malestar en su querido padre.
El siempre había sido un hombre jovial, muy educado y amable con la gente, no solía pasar días enteros de forma taciturna, como en los anteriores a este momento, hacia falta su risa y voz contundente, sin la cual la casa parecía vacía.
Sin saberlo dicha casa era la causa de su desdicha pues, Manuel la había heredado de sus padres, quienes a su vez lo hicieron de sus abuelos, encargado de la herencia familiar, nunca tuvo un día de su vida en la cual tuviera duda de su capacidad económica, por lo tanto era un poco filantropo y le gustaba ayudar invirtiendo en negocios de conocidos, lo cual le había llevado a ganar una importante fama en su comunidad.
Lamentablemente, entre todas aquellas personas que estimaban al afortunado emprendedor no podían faltar personas de malas intenciones, por lo cual al llegar al pueblo un conocido charlatan y estafador de nombre Mateo, no faltó quien le señalara al Manuel como el más evidente objetivo para una estafa.
Resulta pues, que Mateo se armó de un número de personas y comenzó con una estrategia de mercadeo, pero para una sola persona, durante meses le hicieron ver a las personas del pueblo que tenía una forma revolucionaria de predecir acciones de la bolsa, y con un sistema que el llamaba el Negocio del Futuro
Manuel no estaba tan convencido por lo cual decidió cautelosamente esperar, al pasar de los meses varias personas se le hacercaron mencionando lo importante del negocio y como a todos estaba rindiendo dividendos, tentado comenzó a brindar prestamos a las personas interesado en aquel prospero negocio, quienes de forma puntual por meses, le proporcinaron sus pagos, quedandoles a estos dividendos.
Esta experiencia terminó de convencer a manuel quien en una reunión fué convencido no solo de invertir sino de ser el principal inversor de dicha marca, por lo cual llegó incluso a hipotecar su casa, El que no arriesga no gana le dijo a esposa cuando le increpó al respecto. El hombre pensaba que esa empresa iba a ser una marca historica, posicionándose como el mayor benefactor de la comunidad, y proporcionando un negocio para la con tan buen rendimiento cumpliría su sueño.
Lo que el hombre no sabía era que todos aquellos movimientos que lograron convencerlo de semejante empresa, no eran otra cosa que una piramide, la cual no podría mantenerse mucho más del tiempo que estuvieron realizando la treta, los involucrados pronto se fueron del pueblo, estafando a todos, pero nadie involucró su patrimonio como el buen Manuel.
Las hijas se retiraron a su cuarto, no sin antes intentar sin suerte animar a su decaido padre, quien se encerró en su despacho. Un sonido seco fue lo ultimo que escucharon de su padre y de su negocio seguro...
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Manuel was with his head down, looking at the endless floor, with a look as if the weight of the whole world was on his shoulders, his daughters only looked at him and commented among themselves to see if any of them had knowledge of the reason that produced this discomfort in their beloved father.
He had always been a jovial man, very polite and kind to people, he did not use to spend whole days in a taciturn way, as in the previous ones to this moment, they needed his laughter and forceful voice, without which the house seemed empty.
Without knowing it, this house was the cause of his unhappiness because Manuel had inherited it from his parents, who in turn had inherited it from his grandfather. He never had a day in his life in which he had doubts about his economic capacity, therefore he was a little philanthropist and liked to help by investing in business acquaintances, which had led him to gain an important fame in his community.
Unfortunately, among all those people who esteemed the fortunate entrepreneur could not miss people with bad intentions, so when he arrived in town, a well-known swindler by the name of Mateo, there was no shortage of people who pointed out Manuel as the most obvious target for a scam.
It turns out that Mateo armed himself with a number of people and started with a marketing strategy, but for one person, for months they made the people of the town see that he had a revolutionary way of predicting stock market shares, and with a system that he called the Business of the Future.
Manuel was not so convinced so he decided to wait cautiously, as the months went by several people approached him mentioning the importance of the business and as it was yielding dividends to everyone, tempted he began to provide loans to people interested in that prosperous business, who punctually for months, provided him with their payments, leaving them with dividends.
This ended up convincing Manuel, who in a meeting was convinced to be the main investor of that brand, for which he even mortgaged his house, "He who does not risk does not win" he told his wife when she reproached him about it. The man thought that this company was going to be a historical brand as the biggest benefactor of the community, and providing a business for them with such a good return would fulfill his dream.
What the man did not know was that all those movements that managed to convince him of such an enterprise, were nothing more than a pyramid, which could not be maintained much longer than the time they were performing the ruse, those involved soon left town, swindling everyone, but no one involved their heritage as the good Manuel.
The daughters retired to their room, but not before trying without luck to cheer up their dejected father, who locked himself in his office. A dry sound was the last they heard from their father and his safe business....
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