McAfee chatted about Sam and Amy, two young Belizean women — both former lovers — that he left behind Guatemala. Sam accompanied him to Guatemala and Amy has since joined her there.

McAfee said his primary concern is to get them to the United States because he fears for their safety.

Samantha Venegas is a 20-year-old former security guard who has been McAfee’s girlfriend for a year and a half. He said they met when she knocked on his door to complain about something; “I think my dog ate one of her chickens or something,” he said.

He said Amy, 18, was his girlfriend before Sam. He claimed Amy tried to kill him four times during their relationship out of jealousy .

None of these details could be independently verified.

Back in the cab en route to lunch, McAfee talked about why he had spent the past three years in Belize. He said one of the groundless charges local authorities leveled against him was running an illegal antibiotics lab.

“Merck and Bayer have doled out so much money that it’s a crime to do research in these countries now,” he said. “If I were growing pot, it’d be a $100 fine.”

He said he personally hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol or any drugs since Oct. 31, 1983 and rumors that he was on bath salts or any drug were totally untrue.

“All I know about bath salts is that they make people eat people’s faces,” he said. “And if I were to slip, please, I have the resources to take good drugs.”

McAfee needed a phone, but after stepping one foot in the Apple store on Lincoln Road, he left abruptly, saying “They always make you feel like it’s such a f—king privilege to shop in this store.” The phone would have to wait until after lunch.

At Sushi Samba on Lincoln Road, McAfee ordered nigiri sushi and appetizers for the table and virgin mojitos for himself and Camacho. “Most refreshing drink in the world,” he said.

Eating sushi with his hands, McAfee gave love advice to his lunch companions and waxed philosophical about what separates humans from animals. He talked nonstop for two hours, opining about Apple founder Steve Jobs (“finest man the world has ever produced”), the ability to cry, and what one might see walking around South Beach at 3 a.m. in the morning, as he had done the previous night.

“Interesting people are out then,” he said. “My kind of people.”

For his cellphone options, Camacho suggested a prepaid, but the plan didn’t offer options to call Guatemala and Belize. He bought another phone and put on the $300 maximum credit.

He was excited, he said, because this was his first touch phone. “But I could still hack into your computer and steal your bank account information.”

El Nuevo Herald reporter Alfonso Chardy contributed reporting.

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