Just when you think you couldn’t stand Trujillo anymore, Diaz introduces us to Poor Abelard in Five ’44-‘46.  Granted he did come from a privileged background and ran in the unsavory circles of Trujillo and company, though he tried to avoid it. Trujillo’s punishment of him was pretty sad to say the least, I'd never heard of the wet towel around the head & then left him in the sun to fry his brains (sick)! The moral to that story is, don’t wait to see what the Failed Cattle Thief has in store for you when you don’t do as he asks!

The Fuku cycle never seems to end and touches everyone.   I say pobrecita Beli too! Abelard’s third daughter, what a hell of a beginning to lose her father in prison, her mother being ran over, both sisters- one in a pool, and the other by a bullet to the head, not nice.  Beli’s life remains in the toilet, and had it not been for Inca, I wonder if real compassion would have ever found its way to her.