The tourism entrepreneurs of the Canary Islands are asking the Central Government to evict the migrants from the hotel facilities because, according to the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Las Palmas, it is the State "that must provide the necessary and fair humanitarian treatment to welcome all migrants."
Our tourism entrepreneurs recall that the hotel establishments offered themselves "temporarily, briefly and never structurally. Requesting a clear and immediate response from the State Government."
Ábalos extends his visit to the Canary Islands due to the migratory crisis and, after announcing more resources for the "humanitarian emergency", spends a weekend with his family and escort in a 5-star hotel in Tenerife.
As I write these words, the maritime rescue helicopter flies over the island to the coast of Órzola. They are looking for the people that the sea has swallowed. News of one day, tomorrow it will be in the national press, next week it will be forgotten and the cemetery in which we have turned our borders will continue to add bodies and we will continue living in this theater of abundance and capitalism thanks to the tourism industry.
Mean is a word that describes us quite well as a society. According to the RAE, a mean person is a stingy person, lacking in generosity and nobility of spirit. Small, tiny. Poor, needy, lacking the necessary. Unhappy, unfortunate, unhappy. And in this society, the summit formed by politicians and tourism entrepreneurs stands out.
Tomorrow everyone will rush to lament the catastrophe. For one day, they will stop counting the income they obtain from exploitation and looting and will simulate enjoying humanity. The theater of the grieving is expected on stage, photocall at the scene of the tragedy.
The day after tomorrow they will enslave them again for the construction and maintenance of their hotels, cheap labor for third-division tourism, they will plunder again with their lack of papers to exploit them. They will do business again with the "surplus population". Anesthetized from humanity, promoters of ignorance, they will demand again from the government to throw them out like dirty water from their luxurious facilities because they do not see human beings in them.
I hope that today the mean ones shut up. Let them allow the neighbors and professionals who jumped into the water to save lives to speak. May they give us the respect of silence.
