Allow me a sigh. Not just any, no. A long one, with dramatic pause, raised eyebrow, and a look at the camera. Because what's happening in Arrecife isn't politics: it's a graceless monologue written by someone who confused public management with a high school fair.
Yonathan de León, our mayor, the man who spends 550,000 euros on a 24-hour April Fair as if ordering an Uber, now goes and blurts out - with an ease I wish I had to get out of a jam - that some have "lost their way" and that this seems like a "brain transplant."
Look, Yonathan, losing your way is believing that in a city with real problems - housing, neglect, collective anxiety - the priority is to make jokes about mental health, as if this were a high school recess. And about the "brain transplant"... what can I say, more than a phrase, it seems like a confession in the mirror.
In the middle of 2025, with a mental health crisis that doesn't let up, using that kind of expression to discredit the other is not only clumsy: it's dangerous. People suffering from anxiety attacks, kids with depression, seniors who can't afford therapy, and you turn all that into a witty insult. What art. What tact. What a level.
Of course, how can he not be nervous: they called him "Captain Pescanova." And instead of laughing at himself - which would be the healthiest, the most human, the most leader-like - he opts for the stale barb, as if he were on a late-night show with no audience. But, honey, a nickname is the least of it when you manage Arrecife like someone playing Parcheesi blindfolded.
This isn't about whether you're more or less funny, Yonathan. It's about whether you're capable of governing without trampling on the dignity of others, without trivializing issues that kill in silence. And apparently, that costs you more than pronouncing "empathy" without laughing.
Dear Yonathan: yes, someone has lost their way. But it's not us. You lost it the day you thought respect could be left at the office door.
And about the brain transplant... I don't know if there is one, but certainly, the emptiness is noticeable.
