Nevertheless, Divina Flor confessed to me on a later visit,
after her mother had died, that the latter hadn't said anything to Santiago Nasar because in the depths of her heart she wanted them to kill him.
Brenda Flor, the congresswoman for Galapagos, recalled the case of the Baltra Island,
where a US military base was installed during the Second World War(1939-1945), and whose ill effects on the environment can be noticed even today.