Na CIO and Piura n a, Per ú in 1962. He graduated as a lawyer in
currently lives in New York with his wife and two children, and is writing her second novel.
POWER
- We have to enroll as Nelson insists.
I explain the difficulties involved. The document does not meet a legal requirement alone. Public records long ago ceased to be what they were in the past. True crickets pots, feasts of bribes to incompetent. The world is easy to end with the reforms the new government. Everything is now more serious, formal irrationally. Officers and employees are subject to a number of controls and work under greater surveillance. His personal and professional ethics has also been transformed from the university classroom. Unbelievable. And those who remain twisted spirit, do not dare put my hand for fear of losing their livelihoods. No way.
Talk to your friends, "continues Nelson" Maybe you can convince one of them becomes a blind eye.
There are no such friends. Those who were, were promptly fired. And there were friends, only resources.
- Do not you know someone who can lend a hand? "Asks Nelson.
Notaries, of course. No doubt they have more influence than me. They do have friends among the new recorders, the new model last philosophy class.
"The document does not help," says one of them.
- Do you have certificate of good standing? Asks another.
- Can you get it? "Investigates a third party.
I think not. The power is widespread in the Bahamas. Would have to go there to get it.
- Any contact? , Is the curiosity of another notary.
None that I know. Or rather, none of which they can grab. Nobody wants to upset anyone. But everyone wants the outcome. And fast. It is urgent. The bank's board required.
"We must enter the order as it may, Fernando Nelson repeats.
What I can do.
you -confident, very loving Fernando Nelson "The matter is in your hands.
My visits to notaries do not end. Looking where to just get into the ball. I see very far arc. The balloon is deflated. The only solution is to pray. Or cheating.
"Sorry," says consultant of the public record "A document like this will inevitably be seen by the registrar.
- What if I bring a statement from the bank board?
"It is not enough. The law is clear. You need at least one valid certificate or a consular legalization.
Impossible. Power is all I have. Ironically matter. A power that is useless. A power useless, sterile, impotent. Things lawyers.
-enter it anyway, "says Nelson," Let's see what happens. Suddenly in the hands of a comprehensive records.
"That's what I expect. Perhaps one of the notaries bank friends know it and that will pave the road.
The document is admitted to public records for scoring. Five days later, the result is "watching." The note says that you need to attach a certificate of good standing to enroll. Who signs? "García Márquez? No, but as is the chronicle of a death foretold.
- Can you talk to the registrar? Nelson-calls-Does anything?
Nelson refuses to accept reality. Obviously not want to give up his obsession or lose their jobs legal manager of the bank. Is determined to please the board in any way possible. Without much hope, I make an appointment and interview with the registrar. The expression on his face makes it clear that this is a legal metastases.
"Without the certificate of good standing, I can not register the power.
"But doctor, is a banking power.
"It's a power as any other.
"The bank can reward their support.
- What do you mean?
"The bank needs your help.
-Demanding legal requirements, I am helping the bank. I'm avoiding many problems in the future.
"The bank has to register that power emergency, doctor.
-All banks have the same urgency. That is why they bring the necessary annexes. So register their branches in 2 days. You know that the law gives some priority to the institutions of the financial system, precisely to encourage the movement of the economy.
"This bank is now able to present other documents, doctor.
"In that case ...
-Doctor ...
My face says I'm pleading willing to offer you a considerable sum in compensation for its services.
"Good morning.
Recorder rises, leaves the room and lost after a wooden door with a window in the middle. From my seat I can see only the head glass reduced in size until they disappear. It's all for today.
"I have good news, my first words upon entering the office of Nelson.
-We out of time, Ferdinand.
"All I can do is ask for their withdrawal and resubmit it. May reach the hands of another registrar.
- What if I get in?
"We have to take risks. Or we can get the certificate of good standing in the Bahamas?
- Do not you fall ill a trip over there, right?
-would spend a little more, it is true, but we would save a lot of problems. Come on insurance and signed up as a tube.
"I'm not allowed to do that. I need that power registered, now
- I submit again, then?
I will never understand certain executives. Many are like micro drivers when they hit a rut in traffic. Deviate from the path on your quest to find a shortcut to save time, but all I get is to give more and extend around the route. There is seldom lost on the way by treading unknown territory. Think they are doing a great thing when the truth is that only show their monumental stupidity. Doing simple is not the same as making it easy. The first denotes intelligence, although it takes longer because it involves the completion of the process right. Instead the latter reported an immediate result but weak, inconsistent, unstable, he notes, without doubt, a huge stupidity.
Signed the application for abandonment and it arrives within 48 hours. One-stop way to another. On the march back to power for the present study. Four days after the note of observation is the same: the name of the registrar, different. A new appointment for the same dialogue and the same response. Recorders today are ex-offenders more obese, old and filthy bare necks and fat ties that, in contrast, asked:
- How much can you afford?
If it seemed little, made a counteroffer and a bargain even though accepting their terms ended. Otherwise, they went home without papers listed and, therefore, no money paid. Before, everything was easier. Now, with these young registrars collar and a good smell, none of the deals of the past is possible. Any agreement is based on respect for the law.
"We must register as such power.
Nelson's order rings in my ears, my brain, my heart day after day, night after night. I only live for that. That result also depends on the bank to continue to give me work. Therefore, this power depends to continue feeding my family.
-trust in you, Fernando.
trick is foolproof. I know. Feed my ego never failed anyone. Only myself. I'm in your hands. The bank is my main, and almost exclusive-client and work that I care up 90% of my monthly income. I can not afford to disappoint. If I make this goal, I can play the rest of the season without any economic downturns. And maybe get new contracts. Then I check my schedule. I keep several phone numbers. On the formal side efforts are exhausted. I need to get something a little darker, without being completely promiscuous. I find that my schedule has changed. The list contained no names and former underworld registration. Unfortunately only puppets and nobodies survive without major influences, only elements that can be useful in minor matters. Step page after page. Many names and numbers have been labeled with different colored pens. Some are kept enclosed in circles, like to highlight that they can still serve in a given time. My handwriting is irregular, nervous, hurried.
- What will become of your life? "He asked.
Several names do not tell me nothing, only keep a vague recollection of the wearer. Sometimes I do not remember what helped me, or actually helped me in anything. Suddenly, hidden in the midst of energetic blur, a feature unexpected arises.
-Sipan.
The man with the same name as the famous Moche warrior. But it's really his name. For some dwarf remains. I never asked what was the reason for his contrahechez. It was too embarrassing to find something. And I never had enough confidence to investigate that part of his past. I met him when was employed by the public records in the dungeons of the Palace of Justice. At that time I was just a rookie processing authority and he attended the party table. I soon recognized that it was very popular among employees of notaries, better known as sentatives of titles. Sipan was always smiling, despite his notorious tullidez and excessive workload. Out for coffee with users, including attorneys of major law firms. Enjoyed extreme popularity. It waved and rubbed shoulders with the aristocracy of Lima forum. His arm was smaller than the other (or longer, depending on the angle you look at him), semi-paralyzed also limping when walking and it was almost the size of a 12 year old boy, his head flat like a TV. But he was always well dressed and perfumed. Public relations was not left wanting. But because of legal reform imposed by the new government, lost his job, did not qualify in the examination to keep it, and missed the distinguished public records. But it broke away. Because of their experience and skills of social communicator, got a job at a notary. Titers, absolved observations and obtained registration. Very effective. Full contact on all sides.
This was the man who was looking for. What I said in our first conversation to explain the situation was very different to that expressed by notaries and registrars. It needed the famous certificate of good standing.
-Sipan, can not wait. Also there is no way to get it, and I told you. The bank wants to registered, but is not willing to lift a finger to get an extra document. This deed is all we have. And with this we have to enter the power.
-I honestly do not think anyone wants to risk it in a basket case like this.
- Do not know anyone in the command section you can talk and offer in front of a stimulus?
"You are not of those, you know it.
"I'm sure you will make that possible. Even the younger registrars know you. Many of them are your friends, is not it?
"Yes, but I'm not sure they want to do something like this.
"Just try it. Talk to some of them and see what you can achieve.
Sipan kept the cover sheet. We agreed to meet again in a couple of days.
- Any news?
"I know the recorder. I said it was the second time I have that power.
"It's true. What does it say? Are you going to join?
"Yes.
- How do you want?
"Two thousand dollars.
- When do you have enrolled?
"The next day we pay you.
- Are you sure?
"Sure.
- And how you're going to charge?
"Then fix it. When you have the power to tell you registered.
"I do not go to pay dearly. Look what you are paid to the registrar.
"Easy.
"So you stay with the cover sheet?
"You return it with the power registered.
Nelson could not believe it. There was little money, but nevertheless worthwhile to give some money like that to score huge point with the bank's management. Especially in these circumstances that the shareholders' meeting in special session recently decided to change the name of "Bank of the Poor" to "Banco Lord of Miracles" in the hope that the Purple Christ to save them from ruin at a time as uncertain for the country's economy. Inventing a voucher signed any concept and ordered me to pay up money. That same evening I met again with Sipan. Two days later, the power must be registered. The online verification I said otherwise. He had left a new comment. "ENTRY DETECTED of a fraudulent document."
"Fraud? What? How? Sipan! The cell breaks down and Sipan does not appear by chance. I need an explanation before going where Nelson with the news. Not in calm waters, Fernando. This is not a safe place, my dear friend. Seeking Sipan on the same stage of events. Nobody has ever seen. His whereabouts completely unknown. Still does not answer the phone. Start a mystery play, a plot that keeps me tied to the chair. What have you done, Sipan? I suspect the worst. And worse than success.
"I thought they were not going to realize, is the stupid justification Moche king's ancestor.
Nelson is adamant.
"You have to recover the money.
Sipan disappears again. Leo better, more calmly, the new note from observation. "CERTIFICATE ATTACHMENT EFFECTIVE clear signs of forgery. RATING PROCESS OF THIS TITLE IS SUSPENDED UNTIL
"You brought us into this. You have to get us now.
I am moved by the loyalty of friends. Especially when they're lawyers. Was not he who was insisting all the time because it would be the power at any cost place? There is no justification worth. Do not hide my responsibility to contact the wrong person. In fact, my mistake was home. I should never accept an assignment of this nature. It was very stupid of me. When will I learn I'm a star only if I get the results they expect and if I fail I am guilty of all? If I accept my share of responsibility, at least hope that Nelson will do the same. But this showed me his reaction exactly the kind of person he is.
-Poof.
Very studious, dedicated to his job, married to a beautiful woman and the father of a beautiful girl, a professor at 2 universities, a board member of other companies in this master diploma in the other, specialized in that, with post-graduate studies here, beyond awards, a luxury car a beautiful apartment and many trips to the Caribbean, but at the moment of truth, when burned potatoes, everything is summed up in one word:
-Poof.
The ball is in my court. A solution according to the situation is threatening. Sipan, in an unguarded moment and inevitable appearance in the salons public records, is placed on the ropes.
"I need get the money back. If not, the bank is going to throw all the shit up.
Sipan has no chance of knowing that everything is a lie. But the way I speak it swallows whole.
"You know the number of criminal lawyers who advise the bank and the power it has, strengthening the idea to make sure Sipan start wetting his pants. I do not think you can hide long before police find you. Best for you give me back the money.
Sipan is no fool. Idiots make mistakes, nobody can deny that after this, but not an idiot himself. Within a week, through a four-armed delivery, I brought back two thousand dollars completito.
That solves the problem of money. But power remains unregistered. Nelson blames me for the failure. On one side is relieved to have made up the ticket. But on the other was disappointed that I have not reached our goal. Neither speaks to me. He looks angry. Start searching for another way to get what you need. Get someone else. I am leaving. I can not stand working with people like that. This experience is the straw that broke the camel. It sucks. Pure appearance. All false. I quit. I sell my apartment and live a while with the proceeds of the sale. The issue seems to be forgotten. I want to know if it ended or not. If you managed to enter the power. And what methods they used. I'm out.
time later I receive a subpoena from the Judiciary. I am involved in a crime against the public trust. Falsification of documents, to be exact. My name appears in the header the presentation of the title sheet. There is no denying it. The same citation comes to the legal representative of the bank.
"You must help us," says Nelson-The bank can not be involved in a case of this kind. If the Superintendency of Banks finds out, you create a fucking scandal and all have to go to our home. Maybe someone could end in prison.
-do you want to do.
"Just do not say that the bank sought enter the power by other means other than legal ones.
"What I say then.
"Someone intervened without your consent and you conned.
"It is nonsense to say something like that.
"Do not worry. We'll put a lawyer who screwed things up so, until they send the file to file.
"As you say.
Nelson, whom I know since I was a practitioner of the legal department and I fell so nice to be polite and attentive, had now become more of a stinking sewer rat. I do not care what you say or what you do. It is a phony. Poof, it's the right word. I just want to go out and forget it forever.
"It's my chance, I say.
is my unique and wonderful opportunity to do something good for the honesty and loyalty. When the judge called me to return let the voice of conscience speak without restrictions:
-was he who gave the order to register this power at any cost. Regardless of the media and what it took. I made the mistake of contacting a person of dubious reputation, it's true. But it gave no indication of falsifying any documents. Accept and assume my share of responsibility in the matter. But I'm not the only one who has it.
The judge asked and gave them names. Sipan searched and arrested him. Nelson searched and not found. Followed and chased. He threatened a few times by phone and email. I told him to act like a man. He sent me to hell. He promised to corner me and get me arrested using their influence. The authorities took a while to find him, but finally found it. Was giving his monthly report to the directory when undercover officers interrupted the meeting. The scandal was inevitable. The picture of a remorseful Nelson appeared in the newspapers, exposing hypocritical voice plausible but false arguments were heard on the radio and his image with his hands cuffed behind his back circulated on television nationwide. The bank was closed by order of the superintendent. We were all unemployed. Sipan also spent season in the shade. I had to pay a good fine. But I have the satisfaction of having given what he deserved a real fag.
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