THINKING OF YOU AT THE PORT

This story is how the Corsican Santos Morandi went to the Paria Peninsula in eastern Venezuela and grow cocoa, coffee, and indigo plants in the lands abandoned by their owners, and also how three generations of Corsican descendants made a vast fortune planting and trading cocoa from the Port of Carúpano. Those immigrants stayed forever in Venezuela, and set up large and lucrative commercial houses, renovated a port where foreign ships didn't use to dock, built aqueducts, the tram, and the submarine cable to communicate with Marseille, France. They fell in love and married Creoles women, had children with the mulatto women, became involved in politics, and participated in the endless wars. During peace times, they made fortunes later bequeathed to their children, along with their passion for the Cap Corse on the Island of Corsica.