Who to vote for? Until not

There are many people who, every day, ask for a second of my personal attention so that I can a guide to who to vote for in general elections on May 5 this year. In fact, in the beginning, this question used to bother me because I thought that voting is a very personal decision, of each person, and that each person must decide in his inner and intimate part of his conscience, and not be supported by some other intelligence than yours or because someone tells you that your decision is leaning towards this or that candidate, especially when it comes to candidates for the president of the republic.

However, it is not It is surprising that in our Creole politics And as it often happens in other latitudes, where leaders of public opinion are tasked with promoting one or another figure in order to gain preference and therefore vote for them, it is understandable that citizens tend to rely on the opinion of a person in whom they see the possibility of direction and analyzes of the political environment. Could be, free from all immodesty, be it my case.

Well, the political panorama is not at all clear. I warn as follows: During the struggle of the Panamanian people against the neo-colonialist enclave of the powerful mining company, which we thought had ended with the Unconstitutionality Judgment of November 27, 2023, and for which the disastrous Law no. 406 of 20. from the legal system. October 2023. – Obligatory law Concession for mining exploitation –except for one or two candidates, no one else, and Between the two, representative Zulay Rodríguez, the only one that categorically and energetically expressed “no more” to mining exploitation in Panama. The others expressed, like warm water, words and expressions that, far from a categorical answer to no mining, left traces open for other considerations that did not necessarily point to the final stop of said mining activity. exploitation of Panamanian copper, gold and silver.

One of them, who opposed the continuity of mining exploitation, was accused by v own fellow partisan, Juan Carlos Navarro, after handing over the Indio River to a mining company in 2006, eliminating boundaries of the Panama Canal Basinand not that we have it as a resource intended to increase and maintain the water level in the Panama Canal.

Well, in that period of the great works of the Panamanian people, which ceased to be simple protests or popular demonstrations of disagreement against the same issue, that of mining, it turned out that these posts passed from existence, from content not to mining. In Panama, to settle for clear slogan and a glorious act of authentic national vindication of Panamanian nationality and sovereignty.

The fight was no longer only about highlighting the slogan “no exploitation of mines”, but about respecting our jurisdiction as sacred, our sovereignty, nationality and respect for the Panamanian people and their ability to decide on the rational exploitation and in their favor of their own natural resources, and not on the way in which mining exploitation took place, which became a real national shame and harmful to national dignity.

And we cannot forget, therefore, in front of those who today want to direct the destinies of the Panamanian nation that, during the time in which the famous manifestations of the Panamanian people lasted, they were all united in a single bundle of will, those who aspire to sit on the presidential throne, except for the aforementioned exceptions, they did not even express themselves positively about the demands of the people and, on the contrary, in their rare appearances in to the public, showed signs of being unconditional allies of mining corporations and when not to have economic interests in the aforementioned mining empire.

After the Supreme Court ruled on unconstitutionality, to which I mentioned above, the Panamanian people entered a kind of opiate sleep as a result of election and carnival allegories, leaving aside the issue of mining and when people, amidst the circus, delivered bread and wine for the holidays, the statement of the mining company appeared in the national newspaper expressing that the population, the country, was very misinformed, it was misinformed, since the mining company, either as an empire or as a company, confirmed zero pollution. And in addition, they demanded the use of materials that contains gold, copper and silver and that they deliver more than 120,000 tons of this material deposited on mining properties, and according to the information provided to me, it is not that amount, but exceeds 500 thousand tons. And what about the government? Nothing, nothing happens. In general, there is no one to defend the people. All these candidates are also on the agenda mining project: La minerShe is not leaving, she does not want to leave, and if the politicians supported her, she would leave even less.

And the land was given to smoke, like the unredeemed masses, without owners and without shepherds, the opium of choice, By joining the so-called electoral party, which has nothing to do with the party, but surrendering conscience and forgetting national dignity, he is ready to listen to the discussion of some cheap candidates and thus define who will be the one who speaks the best and who lies the most to the Panamanian people, regardless of the magnitude of the lie or unfounded expectations that he gives or offers, in order to win the votes of the electorate.

I will see the debate, if I ever see one, because I am not encouraged, but it will have to be a “debate” of lies and personal attacks, you will see. There is no such serious and moral calmness, and even less ethics that I can talk about with the people. Panamanian with the transparency of authentic and true leaders that they served and in their biographies they show the Panamanian people that in their acts of social demands they stood on the side of the country and not on the side of economic and Plutonian interests.

Finally, in fini, they intend to cut off refer to the presidential candidate who won at the polls. I laugh at this democracy. Without even having a valid and enforceable sentence, as required by Article 180 of the Constitution, they already want it like minced meat.

Unbelievable but true.

In conclusion, what could I advise the voters? Who to vote for? In the meantime, I prefer to continue to observe the catastrophic panorama of bad politics that we see every day. God bless the country!