I am writing to express my deep and absolute indignation at the new news about politicians who have shamefully enriched themselves thanks to the sale of medical supplies in the hardest moments of the pandemic. While thousands of families suffered incalculable losses and our public health system was stretched to its limits, these unscrupulous individuals saw a business opportunity in the collective pain and prevailing need. This behavior is not just corruption; It is a moral betrayal of the citizens they are sworn to serve. The greed demonstrated is an insult to all those who have made sacrifices, to the healthcare workers who have risked their lives, and to the victims of this crisis. My only hope is that justice acts firmly and that those who have profited from the suffering of others will never be able to enjoy a single cent of what was stolen. It is time to demand unwavering ethics from our representatives
Jesus of the Moro River. Valladolid
Disperse
If you don’t feel a tremor in your core when you hear the imperative “disperse” it’s because you haven’t experienced Franco’s repression. If you think that castor oil is a cosmetic and do not associate it with “washing your mouth” and diarrhea, it is because you have not experienced or been told about Franco’s repression. If you don’t understand why the bottle of olive oil is turned upside down to save every last drop, it’s because you didn’t suffer or were not told about hunger during the Franco regime. The brutality, terror and hunger of the Franco regime effectively permeated all areas of life, from the most public gestures to the smallest private gestures. If you are not aware of these gestures it is because you have inherited “the victory” or the silent obedience of the developmentism of the 1960s. If you wore diapers in the 1970s or weren’t even born, you have no idea what a dictatorship is, nor the intimate fear it causes. So please, do not insult our gray hairs by claiming the brutality of the past, nor insult us by frivolously saying that we now live in a dictatorship, because in “a good dictatorship” they would have already “washed your mouth”.
Carmen Campello Anton. Valencia
Conviction without punishment
Some expected a sentence of acquittal and others a conviction, but a sentence, after all, a reasoned sentence that fully justified the conviction or acquittal of the State Attorney General. But no, the procedure, in this case, was to hastily condemn, and then there will be time to think about drawing up a sentence that justifies the conviction. The sentence will be fair as it is, but the feeling that this way of proceeding gives is that the accused was already condemned in advance. Even before being judged. First the conviction, then a purely procedural trial in which apparently some testimonies are reliable and others are not, and finally the sentence, which we are still waiting for. Example of Supreme Court for the rest of the world. This is how justice works here. Congratulations to the white-haired winner and condolences to journalism and the convicted.
Sebastián Fernández Izquierdo. Petrer (Alicante)
