About the calvary of politics

He The name Job comes from Hebrew and means “one who endures hardship”.“Many leaders have gone through hardships that have political roots in our country. So that history does not unravel in the very distant graves of the past, we return to the most recent times, which are still fresh in the collective consciousness.

Let’s start with Victoriana Lorenzo, the victim of a bedroom deal between liberals and conservatives. His sentence was already handwritten by the court of facts, invented by the stitches of political interests, which now lay colorfully in the folds of the same fabric. He was shot by the gunpowder of politics and executed at the expense of the peace forced by the personal interests of the two opposing sides.

He was not an enlightened man, but he died a true martyr who fully understood the political reasons for his condemnation and, near the cannon fire and blue-red smoke emitted by the guns that executed him, uttered these last words: “Victoriano Lorenzo is dying… I forgive everyone”.

and what to say Belisario Porrasthe first caudillo of the republican era, and three times the president of the nation. I still remember that, as a child, my father took me to his museum in Las Tablas. I cherish the memory of her delicate spectacles, without knowing why; but perhaps it will be because through them Porras, the long-lived, has seen his cruelest adversaries navigate the rivers of life and, already eighty years old, with the weight of betrayal on his shoulders, he still expresses an interest in improving that small and fragile world he helped to build: his Panama. Porras attributed all the political success he achieved to his most hated opponents.

He must have been more concerned with works dedicated to the homeland than with his personal heritage. It is a true fact to such an extent that our assembly, In one of those rare episodes of singular patriotism, it fell to him to dictate Act 107 of 1943, which resolved, unanimously, “to empower Executive power in order to ease the financial situation of the widow of Dr. Belisario Porras”.

By Arnulfo Arias Madrid, what could we say if history is not already written in red inks. The fact that he signed his oath of admission to the Acción Comunal secret brotherhood with his own blood also sealed the pact of pain and suffering, which will make his political journey a life test.

I know this from my father’s story, who saw him in the lap of the home, where he is tears can flow without stopping, and without the unpleasant looks of indolent onlookers and heartless opponents. He never wanted my father to take part in politics and must have quietly and bitterly celebrated his son’s election as an MP Nation for the province of Chiriquí in 1968combined with his own triumph.

He was in the very bowels of the beast and did not come out without very deep wounds. Politics robbed him of victory again and again; Because of politics, she suffered several assassination attempts, and even saw with great fear that her enemies did not respect even her mother, who was also the object of an assassination attempt, with arsenic; for politics, he distanced himself at one time, and very bitterly, from his own brother of Harmodius; for politics, being in exile, he was not permitted to return to his own country, to console himself, at least in part, by attending the funeral of his own mother; because of politics, he was uprooted from his homeland and sentenced to exile in other countries, where he was not born, to suffer the cruel torture of nostalgia; for politics, was tried and convicted absurd according to permanent disqualification for holding public office.