JORGE, THE TRAGEDY OF THE LIFE OF A BOY WITH CANCER

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Jorge tells, on a spiritual plane, the dramatic story of his life after suffering from a deadly disease. His story begins when he was an angel and soon after he was fathered by a kind woman, who was abandoned by her husband as soon as she found out about the pregnancy. Being a child of a few years old and after an accidental exposure to an extremely toxic substance, he falls ill with leukemia. After long years of intense sorrow and in the midst of the severe economic and political crisis in Venezuela, where the necessary resources for her treatment, as for millions of citizens, are non-existent and a large part of the population decides to emigrate in the midst of a terrible diaspora, she dies at the age of 8. Each of the crucial moments from his birth, the diagnosis of the disease, the sufferings of chemotherapy and the many invasive procedures performed are recounted. Jorge's story represents that of thousands of children suffering from this painful disease, in a country with unprecedented inflation and economic, political and social disjuncture; and with the largest oil reserves in the world.