Pablo Hiriart
A group of scientists set out to elucidate how many people had died of COVID-19 in Mexico who should not have died: 300,000.
If Hugo López Gatell has not been tried for criminal negligence, it is because, beyond a few doctors and journalists, society has not demanded it.
Nor is it interested in the subject.
It is no longer of public interest to tell the story of the seamstress from my neighborhood: her father died from lack of oxygen in a public hospital while she was lined up at midnight to buy a small cylinder at six in the morning in the Escandón neighborhood.
There is widespread indifference to the fact that Mexico has had the highest number of deaths of medical personnel in the world due to COVID-19 infection.
This was due to criminal savings during the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
So, who is complaining? Is anyone asking for justice?
On the contrary, Morena legislators wanted the Belisario Dominguez Medal for AMLO, and the President cites him daily as the wise helmsman who righted the wrong course of the nation.
The majority prefers to believe that lie instead of accepting the truth that there was criminal negligence by the then President and the Health authorities that killed, among laughter, sarcasm, and false information, 300 thousands Mexicans.
During the previous government, there were 200 thousand people murdered, mostly by organized crime that was underhandedly covered up by the highest federal authorities.
And we are left with the problem of murders, disappearances, and regions of the country controlled by cartel armies, where citizens pay taxes to the treasury and to the hired killers who charge a toll for letting them work.
“Stop it with the news of killings and kidnappings; it’s boring,” we usually hear from educated and bona fide people.
The killing has become routine.
“We will continue building peace,” wrote a Morena leader, but no one criticized him. What for?
Over the weekend, the president repeated López Obrador’s slogan: “There cannot be a rich government and poor people.”
Meanwhile, the government is trying to appropriate Infonavit’s money, which belongs to business people and workers, to spend it on subsidizing its pharaonic properties: Pemex, CFE, an airline, the Mayan Train, the refineries, the useless airport and paying interest on the debts contracted to destroy.
Who says anything about the money taken from the education and health of people with low incomes and invested in government luxuries, which are a bottomless barrel?
No one, and those who write it, do so at sea: it is erased with a lie. It is rewritten and erased again with lies.
They destroyed the future of several generations by throwing billions of pesos into the garbage, they closed the way to private investment, to the creation of infrastructure to attract investment, they eliminated the educational reform, and handed over part of the country to the mafias.
They also destroyed the separation of powers and will control access to justice. They shattered the rule of law.
Who cares, many? It does not show, neither in the streets nor in the polls.
They will seize the key to accessing power by destroying the autonomous body that organizes elections.
Morena will accuse us; Morena will investigate, judge, and condemn us. Morena will be a competitor in the elections and the arbiter of the elections. Morena will resolve the legal appeals.
The silence before the disappearance of the National Institute of Access to Information (INAI) showed the contempt for the value of truth. The collectives formed in past administrations to demand transparency, prosecutors’ offices that serve, and respect for suffrage have vanished.
The truth ceased to matter.
There were no protests against the decision of servile National Electoral Institute (INE) board members to give Morena the qualified majority in Congress, which the voters did not provide.
There were no mobilizations against the annulment of Amparo’s rights. Nor for the unofficial imprisonment for the government’s suspicions (of Morena) that someone altered an invoice, even if it is untrue.
Freud’s question (quoted by Rob Riemen in The Art of Being Human) is relevant today: “Do you really believe that a handful of ambitious and immoral fakers would have managed to unleash all those evil spirits if millions of followers were not their accomplices?”
Not only the followers but, first and foremost, the indifferent ones, those who invite silence and acquiescence to a sect of fanatics that day by day is bent on destroying our noble and beloved home.
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