“We already knew that if Grau took office, we didn’t stand a chance,” said Valentín. Grau’s pledge to end corruption never singled out the gamblers, but as Valentín remarked, “Corruption is a term that we all understood. To operate without incident you had to pay off the police, the inspectors…It’s part of the cost of doing business. And we had sources among Grau’s people—Martín had courted the men who were his top advisors. They had told him: ‘If Grau gets elected, the casinos will be shut down.’”
