An undoubtedly distorted interpretation of the blue arguments that FAES manufactures every day for the PP leadership, wherever their militiamen are, ranks closed, has provoked the absurd reaction of the insular president of the conservative conejeros, directly blaming me for the alleged shortcomings of various kinds that plague the unfortunate Lanzarote airport. To my humble person, no less, converted since the end of 2011 into a mere grassroots member of the modest socialist group of Teguise and without known political activity after my party's debacle in the last general elections.
Could Astrid Pérez's blunder be attributed to the daily schizophrenia in which her party is debated, between the staunch defense of the environmental barbarities that the multinational oil company Repsol is currently undertaking in waters near the Canary Islands and the search for arguments to counteract the cannibalistic voracity of her right-wing government when it comes to devouring the welfare state? Perhaps, because although FAES (something like a kind of ultra-conservative Taliban catechism, of mandatory compliance for the perfect PP leader) indoctrinates using its fundamental dogma, that is, "it's all the PSOE's fault, the only culprits are those of the PSOE, whatever happens, the fault will always be of the PSOE, when you don't know what to say, blame the PSOE", I'm afraid that Astrid Pérez has passed four airport runways blaming me exclusively for the deficiencies of Guacimeta.
If I'm not mistaken, the sequence of events is as follows: a) the president of the Cabildo, from CC, asks the PP to demand from his government the improvements demanded in the electoral campaign by his deputy and his senator for the conejero airport; b) Astrid Pérez responds, recalling that during Miguel González's time in the Congress of Deputies, "it was even requested that the airport not be talked about"; c) the Coll brothers editorialized in their digital newspaper recalling that during González's stay in the Congress of Deputies, "no progress was made", while continuing to compose imperial praises to the illegal hotels of Playa Blanca and the sealed winery of La Geria; and d) me, perplexed.
I remember. A cold morning in March, AENA headquarters, Arturo Soria street, Madrid. The cream of Lanzarote society (Asolan, Aetur, Builders, Chamber of Commerce, political parties, etc.), cited with the president of National Airports, in order to extract tangible commitments to improve the airport infrastructure. A business leader, a prominent figure in the island community, takes the floor: "the airport is useless, it is obsolete, it is dangerous..." The president of AENA interrupts: "that is false. It is the eighth airport in the country in passenger traffic. It is connected daily with all the Canary Islands, with Madrid and Barcelona and with several European capitals. The airlines that operate in Lanzarote show their satisfaction as it is a very operational airport. It is very safe, it has never suffered an accident, the days that it remains closed annually are insignificant, the investment has decreased compared to La Palma and Fuerteventura because Lanzarote was a priority and subject to improvements several years before the other islands mentioned. It is one of AENA's "green airports" because it meets different environmental requirements. It is a good airport". The representative of a lodging business association with several of its leaders accused in various cases of corruption intervenes: "we need a runway with twice the length to bring tourists from Moscow, Warsaw or Budapest". The senior official of the Ministry of Development responds: "La Palma and Fuerteventura have runways longer than Lanzarote. Do you have data on the thousands of Russians, Poles or Hungarians who roam the tourist areas of those islands?". Devastating. I think of a family from Nizhny-Novgorod walking through Tiscamanita. I suppress a weak laugh and the end of the meeting.
After cordially dismissing the picturesque conejera political-business embassy, without the option of presenting a very elaborate interactive DVD prepared for the Chamber of Commerce by someone, as a gloss on the benefits of the future airport, I go to the operational offices of the entity on Avenida de América, s/n. An important director of AENA's environmental division confirms my fears: the intention to build a dike almost a kilometer long that starts from Guacimeta beach and penetrates the sea as a continuation of the current airport runway, and place on this wall of shame the platform for takeoff and landing of aircraft, is one of the most brutal ecological barbarities he has ever heard. He tells me about the danger of breaking the balance of the tides, of preventing the supply of sand to the beaches of Puerto del Carmen, of harming the Site of Community Interest (SCI) of the area, of the European rigor when drafting environmental impact studies. He asks me, in confidence, who the enlightened ones who came up with such an aberration are. I reply, crestfallen, that a few public institutions, several business associations and some PP politicians. He looks at me in amazement. "It will be the sirocco", I tell him, to relieve the tension, and I explain, smiling, that according to legend, the African wind causes mental disorders to some Canarians. "To these, for sure", he sentences.
And that is what, I estimate, has given Astrid Pérez. A sirocco. The damn sirocco, which brings us the haze and invades our brain with suspended dust from the Sahara and makes us declare publicly that a guy, from the PSOE, when he was a deputy, dedicated himself to little less than rolling through ministries and national airport entities so that, the president of the PP deduces, the ZP government punished Lanzarote with anger and a blow. It will be the same sirocco that envelops the business leaders of this island and prevents them from seeing beyond their noses and understanding that the island territory is not sold, that Lanzarote is satiated with horrendous and illegal urban interventions and that citizens need qualified and decent public representatives, capable of seeing the horizon clearly, no matter how dense and thick the haze comes.
P.D. It is possible that a list of insults, slander and other anonymous offensive comments will be listed below. Allow me, reader, to recommend that you discard them. Whoever hides in anonymity and insults does not know how to debate or admit dissent. Saving the distances, something like the fanatics who massacred "Charlie Hebdo".
