The midwife Flor Orcasita was right in ruling that this baby, still moist from the recent birth and wielding herself with strength in the wrinkled hands of a small-town matron, would be “taken forward.” This was immediately made known to the mother, sore from the effort she had just made and prostrate on the canvas and cross-wood cot, in the mid-morning of that March 18, 1983. Casacará was, then, a town that lived from the process. cotton planting, cultivation, harvesting and clearing; Its inhabitants were happy spending as much or as little as they could earn in those agricultural and industrial tasks. Dannys Julieth Ospino Zúñiga, as they baptized the newborn, she would have her own business in the capital of the department, but before that she had to show the spirit of strength that the woman who welcomed her at her birth predicted.
Dannys Ospino lived a peaceful childhood, which guaranteed her a peaceful adolescence, alongside her friends, if the guerrilla and paramilitary violence had not been cruel against the Casacareños: the young woman had to drop out of her tenth grade at the ‘Luis’ school. Giraldo’ from that town and flee from the fear and anxiety caused by the uncertainty of not knowing who the next victim would be.
Fortunately, her aunt Petrona Ospino, who helped her grandmother raise her granddaughter and niece, had managed to buy a house in Valledupar, with the savings from her salary as a cleaner at the town’s only high school. At that time, Villa Taxi, where they went to live, was a neighborhood far from the city, surrounded by mountains. Dannys Ospino enrolled in the ‘Manuel Germán Cuello Gutiérrez’ school, where he finished high school. Unable to achieve her dream of being a professional and overwhelmed by nostalgia for the abandoned town, Dannys Julieth became pregnant and went to Riohacha, where her mother worked.
From cheese and whey to the internet
She returned to Casacará giving birth to Julieth, her first daughter. She went to spend December, but, in April, her aunt Petrona convinced her to return to Valledupar “to do something.” She started selling cheese and whey to the stores and neighbors, which she brought, above all, from Casacará. In that coming and going to town she became engaged to the countryman who would be her husband. And she had Zarith, the second of her daughters. She did not want to continue with the business to dedicate herself to her two little girls; However, her spiritual vigor could not stay still: she finished Early Childhood, at the Sena, and Administrative Assistant, at a private entity.
He did not work in the first technological field, but he did the second: he worked for a time at Tránsito de Valledupar and in a betting house. She liked this last job so much that she set up her own betting house and it did well, but the covid pandemic damaged her business; So, she reversed the fate of the same global disease and set up a courier company with her sister. They couldn’t have done better, but as humanity overcame confinement, home delivery orders declined.
Then, he put an Internet Café in front of the ‘PrudenciA Daza’ School. And he sold stationery, meccato and school supplies to the boys. “I did so well that the owners of the store, perhaps, thought I was becoming a millionaire and asked me for the store,” she told Semanario La Calle about her new venture.
From technology to food
A friend told him about a place at the ‘Los Manguitos’ traffic light, on Avenida Fundación. And he moved his business there from the front of the school, but in that area there were no students but mechanics, since it is surrounded by several workshops. He started carrying fried foods and chicken rice; However, people asked him for lunch; For this reason, he now included stews and provisions that he prepared in his house, but now they asked him for soup, which he also quickly ran out of when he started with it on the menu. In those he lasted four months.
Until he decided to cook right there. He is doing very well, thank God. He leaves for the Valledupar Public Market daily at 5:30 in the morning. His sister opens the restaurant at 6:00 to serve customers who are going to have breakfast. She is selling an average of 20 to 30 plates per day. Her eldest daughter finished Psychology and, while she is doing her thesis, she continues to go every day to help him serve clients. Casacareña midwife Flor Orcasita was not wrong when she glimpsed what the baby she had just received could do.
