The Fat Cat: A Story by Jaime Bayly

An international agency of speakers offered me enough money to give a lecture at a hotel in Punta del Este. I was worried. It seemed like an alarm signal. I was doing something wrong, I thought. I asked who would be the kind gentlemen who would pay me. I was told that a group of bankers. I asked what I should talk to them. I was told that the issue would be the economy in Latin America. I asked how long I should talk. I was told fifty minutes. I…