This is a beautiful country," he told me several times.
Her father is a proud man, Vanessa told me, and she admires him for the way he has handled his involuntary role in one of the city's darkest dramas. He does things his way, she said, doesn't like asking for help, and is more interested in providing for his family than revisiting the past.
This begins to explain why we haven't heard anything about Fidel Lopez for almost 20 years. He decided long ago that he could consider himself an unfortunate soul or a lucky guy who — at a horrible moment in history — was saved by a good man.
He chose the latter.