In a country where political corruption is constantly in the headlines, budget cuts are applied to basic and universal services such as health and education, 27% of the active population is ...
In a country where political corruption is constantly in the headlines, budget cuts are applied to basic and universal services such as health and education, 27% of the active population is unemployed, there are about three million people in extreme poverty, 526 evictions occur daily, the best and most prepared young people are forced to leave their country in search of an opportunity and in which these and many other misfortunes have been caused by a financial crisis from which an economic and political system based on the dehumanization of the reality that surrounds them has emerged strengthened to maintain a supposed stability in the name of the markets, the escraches were born.
The escraches arose from the indignation of a society that sees how misfortunes happen and expand without those responsible for them moving a gut or without political leaders thinking of giving a fair and necessary solution so that the situation continues to worsen. Quite the opposite. Thus arose the intention to denounce, point out and create awareness of the escrache.
The reactions were immediate and in a desperate attempt to deny courage and honesty to this new social movement, they are described as violent at a minimum.
The truth is that to date the escraches have achieved their main objective, to draw attention to their main complaints always in the form of peaceful protest.
Curiously, those who see in the pressure exerted by the escraches with their actions an attack, do not recognize that it is a more than legitimate reaction given the civil barbarity we are suffering.
Citizens are not backed by a large multinational that finances their actions that allows them to exert accurate pressure in a more elegant and less noisy way. It is regrettable to be aware of the number of corporate lobbies that we can find in the cities where political power is concentrated, exerting pressure equally without anyone being scandalized, calling them Nazis or threatening to physically assault them. A matter of perspective, depending on where that pressure comes from, it will be better or worse seen.
Without a doubt, the escrache has been the most civic escape route we have had to show the anger and impotence we feel, an action of imperative necessity in the face of so much social injustice.
As long as their actions remain peaceful and in accordance with the general feeling, they will be totally and absolutely legitimate, as well as necessary. Anyone who wants to deny this evidence either has no morals or does not live in the same country as me.
Saray Rodríguez Suárez
Councilor of the socialist group in Tías
