Reborn American Giants

"Are you Salvadoran too?"

This tone is a bit unexpected and a bit surprising.

…

In the banquet hall of the luxuriously decorated Helmsley Hotel, the dance music of por una cabeza echoed in my ears.

Victor held onto Beola's slender and soft waist, and the snow-white skirt fluttered. Under the dim light and shadow, it brought out a desire to find out. The skirt was slightly slit, revealing the white and shapely calves from time to time.

, before I had time to see clearly, it was covered by the fallen skirt.

The slim-fitting design of the dress also makes Beola's upper body appear more dazzling during the rotation, and her chest becomes fuller, making people worry that at every turn, she will suddenly be unable to support herself and gushing out.

The two people's eyes followed each other's movements, looking back again and again, separating, and then looking back again, sliding out beautiful dance steps on the colorful dance floor.

The final ending is at the end of "One Step Away". Victor taps the ground lightly with his right toe, raises his right hand diagonally, and wraps his thick left arm around Beola's waist that suddenly bends backwards.

They looked at each other until the dance music stopped, the lights were bright, and everyone at the cocktail party began to applaud.

Walking to a long table covered with white tablecloth on the sidelines, Victor took two glasses of champagne and handed one to Beola, who looked slightly out of breath. The two chatted for a while, and Beola asked.

After asking "Victor, where are you from?", Beola looked surprised by his answer.

"Oh, are you Salvadoran too?" Victor glanced at Beola.

"Yes, I am a student at the National University of El Salvador. This time I am accompanying my uncle to New York."

As Beora spoke, she waved to a group of people on the other side of the reception who were discussing something. Victor saw a bald man in his fifties also raised his hand in response to Beora, and then turned around.

He turned around and continued talking with several officers wearing U.S. military uniforms.

"That's my uncle, Garcia Clemento... Come, let me introduce him to you."

Victor nodded. He had already discovered who this Garcia was. He was one of the three giants of the Salvadoran military and the younger brother of Lieutenant General Benedix Clemento, who controlled the logistics equipment department. The two sides held a meeting in Iturbide.

We met once at a cocktail party. It was when Victor was running for city council and he was being led by Louisa to expand his connections.

It seems that this Beola is the daughter of Lieutenant General Benedix.

"Uncle," Beola took Victor's arm, walked to Garcia Clemento, and said, "This is Mr. Victor, the man who saved me a few days ago."

"Hello Mr. Garcia, I didn't expect to see you in New York."

Garcia Clemento thought for a moment and quickly remembered who Victor was. Because of the Housing Reform Act, Victor kept appearing in major media in San Salvador for a while, which obviously made people remember him.

profound.

He stretched out his hand toward Victor, and the two shook hands lightly and let go. Garcia said with a smile: "Victor, it's nice to see you. Why are you here...?"

"Oh, it's just for some business reasons. You know, I can't support myself just by relying on the salary of a congressman." Victor held up the wine glass in his right hand, shrugged, and looked at the three people standing next to him.

There were two officers. The first one had a silver eagle epaulette hanging on his shoulder, indicating that the other person was a colonel in the US military. The other two were also lieutenant colonels carrying two oak leaves on their shoulders.

"Haha, Victor, what you said is very correct, but your city council has the power of budget and appropriation. It should find ways to improve the salary and benefits of council members."

"Then the media and the public have found a topic," Victor blinked.

"Hahaha..." Garcia laughed twice, looking a little happy. Beola, who was next to him, originally planned to introduce her uncle to Victor, but she didn't expect that the two parties actually knew each other, so it seemed a bit unexpected and mixed at this moment.

He watched with surprise as Victor and his uncle chatted and laughed.

"Oh, Victor, let me introduce you," Garcia turned around, moved his right hand, and moved the colonel in front of Victor. "This is Colonel Vincent Tesser, and these two are Calgary

Kerman and Lieutenant Colonel Doug Braunstein.

Three, this one is Councilman José Victor of the San Salvador City Council.”

"Colonel Tesser, Lieutenant Colonel Glickmann, Lieutenant Colonel Braunstein," Victor raised the wine glass in his hand and saluted them all, and the other party also nodded politely.

"Garcia, I think today's occasion is not a good opportunity to talk. We can find a time to go to my office and have a good talk," Colonel Vincent Tesser raised the wine glass in his hand and gently chatted with Victor.

He touched it, took a sip of the drink, and then said to Garcia who was looking at him.

"Colonel, please consider our request carefully. Facing the threat from the evil gcist camp, we urgently need the help of the US government."

"Garcia, your El Salvador government is too greedy..." Facing Garcia's request, Colonel Vincent Tesser seemed to have thought of something, and his words stopped abruptly, "I will report your request to my superiors, but

As an old friend, I still want to advise you not to have too much hope."

"Thank you very much Vincent, we will never forget your help as an old friend," Garcia said meaningfully as his eyes seemed to be flashing.

Regarding this sentence, Colonel Vincent Tesser seemed noncommittal. He raised the wine glass in his hand to Victor and Beola, "Congressman Jose, and Miss Beola, please enjoy the reception tonight, and we will

I’ll take my leave now.”

After saying that, he placed the wine glass on the long wooden table beside him, followed by two lieutenant colonel officers, and disappeared at the door of the banquet hall.

There was no one else around, so Beola could finally speak. She took Garcia's arm and asked happily, "How did you meet Victor?"

"Oh my God, you don't even know who your savior is? You are such a stupid girl." Garcia asked his niece in an exaggerated tone, obviously joking.

"Uncle..." In front of Victor, Beola was teased by Garcia in a child-like tone. She seemed a little shy. She stamped her foot twice and shook Garcia's arm a few times, feeling reluctant.

"Haha," Garcia chuckled twice, turned around and said to Victor who was standing aside and watching their uncle and nephew making fun of them: "Victor, I really should thank you, Beola is spoiled by her family.

, this time I brought her to New York, if I hadn’t met you, I really don’t know how I would have explained it to her father.”

"Mr. Garcia, you're welcome. I think no matter who it is, they will not tolerate any harm to a girl as beautiful as Miss Beola."

"You are really good at talking," Garcia put away the smile on his face, turned his head and said to his niece with a serious face: "Don't run out alone again. The security on the streets in the United States is no better than that in El Salvador."

No matter where you go, not every time you will be lucky enough to meet someone like Victor."

"Okay, okay, I get it..." Beola obviously didn't take his uncle's warning to heart, all her eyes just lingered on Victor.

Garcia beside him obviously noticed his niece's reaction, but before he could speak, Victor had already asked: "Mr. Garcia, please allow me to take the liberty of asking, what did you do with Colonel Tesser and the others just now?"

Are you talking about the U.S. government’s new round of military assistance to El Salvador?”

The United States' foreign aid is divided into two categories: economic aid and military aid. After the Underwood administration established the Agency for International Development, 80% of the economic aid has been basically handed over to this newly established department.

Military assistance to allied countries and regions is still in the hands of the Defense Security Assistance Agency under the Department of Defense.

This department was established in September 1971 and is headed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy. Its specific operations are under the direct leadership of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. It is responsible for guiding, managing and supervising the implementation of security assistance plans, including foreign military assistance and arms sales, and determining

The establishment, tasks and staffing of the security assistance agencies dispatched by the Department of Defense to foreign countries. The headquarters is located in the Pentagon in Washington.

According to the "Simple Defense Weekly" just founded in 1983, the United States committed a total of US$24.2 billion in foreign aid in 1984, covering 13,000 projects and 155 countries and regions, of which economic assistance was US$16.4 billion. And military assistance

Aid was US$7.8 billion, accounting for 32.2% of total aid.

Unlike in the past, most of the military aid went to West Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, the United Kingdom and other influential Western European countries to help them launch a confrontation with the Soviet Union. Among the 7.8 billion US dollars in military aid,

There is 50% flow direction

The oil-producing countries in the Middle East are followed by the Caribbean, the "back garden" of the unstable United States, which accounts for about 19%, or about US$741 million. El Salvador has to compete with other Latin American countries for this important US$741 million.

Military assistance.

Garcia's purpose is obvious, and it should be to lobby the officers of the Defense Security Assistance Agency, which is responsible for military assistance in the Department of Defense.