Dr. Diego Bohórquez

I remember specifically that a friend of his who was in the special forces stopped by our home because that was the main road that we go into the Amazon jungle where the folks in the special forces in the military will be trained.

And he stopped by and said, like, hey, Rogelio, like, what are you going to do with Diego?

You know, like, I think that it is about time that, you know, I think that you should send him to the military school.

And I remember in a matter of, like, literally a couple of weeks or three weeks, I had taken the tests and I was accepted into the military school.

And then I ended up in military school.

And this was the, at that time, it was the premier military school in the country.

That alone, it was...

with years you start to understand the context in which you developed.

Because it was a very interesting context for a child.

Like just to give you an idea, this school had the first and the only zoo in the country.

So from my classroom, I would literally look at the lions.

And then I think that was by the second year that I was in the school, second or third year, that became that because the city started to grow and then the military school was wrong.

And then they separated the higher education for military officers.

They separated them and they put them in a different place.

But that zoo actually became the first zoo of the capital of Quito.

Yeah.

But I have specifically one memory, like climbing up, I think was like from the, because we had an Olympic pool and we had all of these events.

The soccer field was the field where the national team will go and train on because they didn't have their own stadium.

their own training grounds.

Later on, they had their own training grounds.