Between the photo station and the judges

By Manuel García It seems that two tendencies are always appreciated in societies. On the one hand, there are the individuals in solidarity, in whom their personal effort decisively contributes to the common good. Their actions, like good seed, ...

July 18 2012 (19:32 WEST)
By Manuel García
It seems that two tendencies are always appreciated in societies. On the one hand, there are the individuals in solidarity, in whom their personal effort decisively contributes to the common good. Their actions, like good seed, ...

It seems that two tendencies are always appreciated in societies. On the one hand, there are the individuals in solidarity, in whom their personal effort decisively contributes to the common good. Their actions, like good seed, transcend in time, bear fruit. César Manrique, for example, was right to say that we live in an exceptional Atlantic place where ecology must be a key piece, in addition, he left us the CACT and the FCM as a legacy.

The engineer Manuel Díaz Rijo, brought the desalination of sea water to the Island and made tourism development possible. José Torres, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote, seems to be corresponding to point out that renewable energies and technological innovation should have more prominence in the next step that we as a society decide to take. A paradigm of this is the photo station inaugurated last week in the business innovation center of the Chamber.

But, on the other hand, we have the unsympathetic characters who feed and take despicable advantage of what belongs to all of us. Normally, whatever they touch turns into misery. Fifty years ago, the agriculture of Lanzarote could be considered miraculous. The Jable, a desert in every way, was crossed from north to south without ceasing to observe the green of the harvest. Most of the Island lived on that rabid dry land. But an enlightened man arrived and orchestrated the start-up of the Teguise Agro-industrial Complex. He had a surprise in store for the men and women who willingly maintained the agricultural miracle.

By acquiring, at an artificial better price, the harvest of a single year from most of the Island, it brought three consequences: farmers and ranchers who still today have not collected what they are owed, annihilated the intermediaries who took the product to the foreign market and, as a consequence, sank island agriculture (some trucks of onions even reached the Zonzamas landfill?). Later, this enlightened man set up a political party and, together with his henchmen, cowardly devastated everything that came his way. There is no need to give more clues as to who we are referring to or his subsequent escapades.

Three hundred years ago, the American Constitution wisely incorporated the separation of powers of the State. If everything worked, the Judicial power should stop the excesses of politicians. Unfortunately, that is not what is perceived. Many of the resources that are needed today in education and health, have already been looted by criminals dressed as politicians, smoke sellers, Caribbean pirates. In these moments of economic uncertainty, and in the face of the new revelations of the Unión case, it is in the hands of the judges and prosecutors to exercise forcefully, without limits, to make these satraps pay for the atrocities they committed in the past (some, even, wanted to bury the Bay of Juan Rejón so that the coast of Arrecife, with the new hotels, would become a CSI Miami scenario?).

The general tone is the suspicion that the Unión case will come to nothing. However, the dedication, the iron-fisted action of the judges so that these cunning people who have usurped the future of many prepared and currently unemployed young people, do not go unpunished, will give some hope of Justice, of change. If achieved, they will restore order, make more people decide to opt for the path of solidarity so that we all benefit.

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