Entonces, el payaso ordenó que le pusieran su banda presidencial, como el gran mandatario de aquel país, pero todos comenzaron a reírse a carcajada. Mientras más furioso se ponía el payaso y reclamaba su banda presidencial, más risa causaba entre la gente. Y es que aquel país ya había dejado de ser un país y se había convertido en un gran circo.

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Circus country
There are stories that we think are fictitious because they are unbelievable, but we are surprised when we discover that they are based on real facts. Like the one in which a clown devised a plan to overthrow the government of a country. Among his accomplices, there were not only other clowns like him, but also jugglers, animal tamers and even a famous conjurer who could make even a person disappear:
_We are an efficient team: we are called to govern this country,” said the clown, sure that he had everyone's support.
The clown entertained the people with a speech full of humor, but also full of offenses, irony and hatred:
_ We don't have guns, but we do have lions and cages to put the president in,” said the clown mockingly and people cried from laughter or laughed to keep from crying.
Also, the jugglers began to walk from one side to the other, from one team to the other, accustomed to walk on a tightrope without falling, and those of the government did not know if those men were of their team or of the others and let the jugglers jump over the fence, as and when they wanted, like toads or acrobats.
The best were the magicians. In the blink of an eye they made everything disappear. At first they would say words: abracadabra, for example. But then with just a wave of their hands, without a magic wand, they made things disappear. At the beginning they made money disappear, voting records, but later they even made people disappear.
Every day was like a performance for them, they worked hard to perfect their work, the technique they used. Thus, the clown became more clownish, the tamer, more skillful with the wild beasts and the magicians more skilled in making things disappear. And they fed on the applause and praise of others:
Eventually, under everyone's noses, the clown and his team succeeded in overthrowing the government. People were stunned because they had believed it was a show and not a real event. Then, they filled the cages with people they wanted to cage and left the wild beasts outside. Not to mention what the magicians did, who managed to take everything from the people without them being able to protest.
Then, the clown ordered them to put on his presidential sash, as the great leader of that country, but everyone started to laugh out loud. The more furious the clown became and demanded his presidential sash, the more the people laughed. The country had ceased to be a country and had become a big circus.