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"Shut up or I’ll kill you!" says again the fierce salt man, as if the blade aimed at the throat alone weren’t enough to represent a dreadful threat- Venezuela is the country that Giovanni Cappellin chose in the early 80’s to start again from scratch, after a prestigious degree at the Bocconi University.It’s the country of Amazon’s pristine forests.And it’s Guajiros’ wild land as well.Only in Caracas from fifty to eighty people are killed every weekend in violent gunfights.These pages describe both an enchanting and a violent reality: from the author’s professional successes to the encounter with his wife Lidia, until July 2011 when, during a brief holiday to La Tortuga Island, he was attacked together with his daughter. What follows is a long night of terror, described in all its most horrible details, and yet able to revive in the protagonists a new love for life.With an impressive and fascinating style, Cappellin makes us perceive the charm of a cobalt blue paradise, behind which an awful darkness hides.