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I think this was a YA book: A scifi story on a space station where the twist is that the protagonist's friend (possibly named Maria) was working for a coalition of evil South American governments. There was something about discovering immortality/longevity treatments aboard the space station (discovered via a long-lived hamster, less gravity meaning less work for the heart), and the protagonist had a limp.