A bright idea:
A Dominican from New York comes down to Paraiso on vacation. He gets the idea of starting a new tourist business. After all: look at the stream coming out of the mountain and traveling a short distance into the sea. Why not buy the land, put in some pipes to channel the water as well as a few natural looking swimming pools and then start attracting customers? So our investor went to the campesino owner; paid him an insignificant amount... and started developing.
How easy to fool the "dumb" campesinos:
Our New York savvy entrepreneur gets off to a fast start. He puts in some walls and two eighteen inch PVC tubes to bring the water down to various pools. All the while he thinks how easy it was to buy the land when the old campesino needed an operation and had no cash. His friends all see him as a modern wonder... but then came hurricane George... and in a matter of less than twenty four hours, the fantastic, quick money project got buried under tons of rock and sand.
God likes to turn swords into plowshares:
The sharp thinking investor ends up creating a haven for the people of Ojeda. When hurricanes or tropical storms like Noel attack their island, they know that fresh water is less than a mile away. All they have to do is walk down the coastal road and turn right into the finca where beautiful pools of clean water bubble to the surface. God gets blamed for hurricanes and house wrecking storms... why not give Him the credit for taking a development project down a path that no one expected? Ojeda might be forgotten by the central government planners and be last in line for aqueduct repairs...but God has provided the people with a beautiful park to wash, bathe and find water to carry home.
