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INTERVIEW:
Flor
Rodriguez
Around 1946 a leper village arouse and located near the Amazon Rive, the Village was called San Pablo in Iquitos, Peru.
When Mrs. Rodriguez was in her twenties- at the moment having 3 children and was married to Manuel Rodriguez- was diagnosed with leprosy most known as the Hansen's Evil Disease in her village. She at the time was isolated from her children and they were taken away by the nuns that came to helo the leper patients.
She says " As they took my children away from me, it was very hard to see my children go specially becausethe nuns though i woudnt be a good mother". To think that an own mother could be dangerous to be around, their own children and take them away from their mother is just morally wrong.