"And We Sold The Rain" by Rosario Santos

After reading the short story "And We Sold The Rain" by Rosario Santos, I can honestly say that it makes it absolutely inconceivable from a point of view of a “developed” country what some “undeveloped” countries would do to get money. The story was actually based upon real life events known as the Water War in Bolivia. The story depicts a crippling town who is about to go under unless they find a way to make easy money, so they privatize the towns water works and give the rights of the rain water to a sultan. The sultan is none other than the head of the Aguas del Tunari firm. Although in the story the people leave the town in real life is much more different, for a series of protests of over 2,000 took place to throw out the new regime instilled by the government. It goes without saying that desperate times call for desperate measures, and even though it may be inconceivable to us, corruption is a part of our daily lives. More so in countries with little to no resource, because most of the population is uneducated on their rights and how to make the government exercise them. The governments of these nations know of this and take advantage of it. We live in a time were greed and malice is a common trait among humans, and it is often too late before one can know that a fellow human suffers it, for how can one conceive a disease that is not visible through our five senses? The answer lies in whether we want to see what lies beyond the curtain or hide like cowards behind the wall that block us from the one truth.