A glass of beet for Tito Berni

March 1 2023 (19:12 WET)

When many of us thought that after Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts and the decision-making capacity of technicians in many of the decisions of the Public Administration would protect everyone's money, an alleged corruption plot appears capable of shaking Spanish politics.

In the Carrera de San Jerónimo, guarded by two lions, is the seat of democracy in Spain, the place where all citizens are represented and which throughout history has experienced various events; a mustachioed man shooting, approvals of I don't know how many education laws, speeches with a printer included, nocturnal plenary sessions that approve states of alarm or in 2018 a motion of censure went ahead to "avoid corruption in the Government". Well, imagine if, in addition to all this, there is someone who, according to a mediator, asks for catalogs to know which prostitute to spend the night with.

This, which seems implausible from a moral point of view, becomes repugnant and even disgusting when it is said that these nocturnal parties, which included prostitutes and cocaine, were part of the negotiations on how to award public funds directly. It took me about 10 minutes to write the previous three lines, I refuse to think that politics in Spain has sequences of this style. In Spain and in the Canary Islands because, according to the summary, the politicians involved are the former deputy for Las Palmas Juan Bernardo Fuentes and his nephew Thaisset Fuentes, who was the general director of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands until recently, both from the PSOE, yes, those who came to eliminate corruption from the institutions.

The guys from the Canary Islands' jugones chiringuito, uncle and nephew, apparently met with businessmen obtained by Antonio Navarro Tacoronte (alias the mediator) to get subsidies to support livestock in the middle of the pandemic or the elimination of sanctions deliberately. Did they do it in exchange for a glass of beet? Well, no, in addition to the horrifying parties of drugs, viagra and prostitutes, they are supposed to have received bribes or, as my grandmother would say, "they spent money like water." All this around the money of all the Canarians and of a sector as fragile as that of livestock. Don't you think that these people closed the party agreements, man for God! Prior to this there were dinners, which of course were not in the Teleclub de Tao with a tapa of goat meat from El Rubio, they were in seafood restaurants of the highest level or in the Ramsés restaurant in Madrid.

This whole time bomb explodes 10 days ago with the arrest of a Civil Guard general, Thaisset Fuentes and the mediator. After this time and with the population stirred up by such nonsense, the Debate on the State of the Canarian Nationality arrives at the Parliament of the Canary Islands, a perfect moment for someone from the top of the autonomous government to say something. I recognize it, this Monday morning I was very nervous, a president of the Government of the Canary Islands and general secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands had a public tool to speak without time limit of everything that happens to this Archipelago. How naive of me, the president of the thousand and one tragedies, limited himself to saying that he had no knowledge of anything and that he was going to sue the mediator for the information he was giving.

Then I have to stop and think, but let's see, months ago the general director of Livestock was dismissed due to loss of confidence and someone placed him "with a shoehorn" as a candidate for Mayor of Antigua. And if I take for granted that nobody knew anything about the alleged scandal, then we have to understand that the Minister of Livestock and her general director do not speak to each other. I don't know which of the two things is worse for me.

After the president, the opposition intervened, without obtaining much response regarding the mediator case either. They say that poor Barragán was almost sent to sweep the carpets and that Domínguez asked Gustavo Matos for the key to spend the night there. The man hopes that Ángel Víctor will ask for light and stenographers for the corruption of the PSOE in the Canary Islands as he asked for it months ago for Ayuso, of course between that and going to Los Realejos to return in the morning with the queue, it is more profitable for him to stay in Sta. Cruz.

To conclude this analysis, which is taking place every morning in the cafeterias of the Canary Islands, as a 30-year-old woman who has to call her friends to return home at night; I feel cheated if the same man who voted against prostitution in Congress then had these parties. In addition, his vote also served to approve a law that has reduced the sentence of hundreds of sexual aggressors.

I remember my paternal grandparents and their little house in Berrugo at night, the smell of beet boiling to give us dinner. May these letters serve as support for, in addition to women, all the ranchers of this land who may have been harmed in their worst moment by such repugnant acts.

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