Police Tape

Today as we drove to the church there were more police and more army men stationed on various corners, holding their machine guns.  In the past the army men were always in groups of 3, but today the military men were in groups of five.  There were even five stationed outside of Josselyn's school.  Joss did not really like that.  Jairo thought maybe one of the children of a military officer was in classes.   We have never seen the military stationed there before, but over the past few weeks we have seen more and more military presence.  Jairo believes that something is about to happen, but we don't know what.

A few days ago the 17 year old son of an army colonel was killed.  He had 3 Cobra (special opps) men protecting him at the time, but 10 men came, killed the security men, and killed the boy.  The photos in the newspaper show that the boy bears a striking resemblance to Lourdes and Jairo's son, Aaron.

When we got to the church Christian and his best buddy Ever had finished their morning chores with Don Juan and were playing soccer in the parking lot.  They stopped to wave to us as we passed by on our way up to the church.  This is what Christian (formerly known as Conejo - rabbit) was wearing on his feet:

Shoes held together with police tape

I asked if he had other shoes at home.  He said he does have black shoes for school, but nothing to play in.  Christian is one of my favorite little guys.  I went to Lourdes.  Unfortunately the church doesn't have any sneakers to give him right now.  Looks like he will be wearing the police tape for a while.  Sadly, police tape is available in great abundance in Los Pinos.