I have never allowed myself the impertinence of commenting on anyone's sexual orientation, not even that of Senator Joel Delgado. If it weren't because such an affirmation would seem disrespectful, I would say that his sentimental relationships matter to me a damn, in the understanding that what I want to say is that I have never cared how anyone lives their sexuality or what relationships they have, including Joel Delgado.
I insist, I have never commented on anyone's sexual orientation and neither have I done so on Senator Joel Delgado's. I repeat, I have not commented on Joel Delgado's sexual orientation.
I have limited myself to exposing facts: Senator Delgado's sentimental partner was arrested in Operation Union and that statement is sustained, without any doubt, with the documentation in the proceedings opened as a result of the aforementioned operation.
I made that statement to try to shed light on some of the keys that explained my appearance in a Senate committee as a result of Joel Delgado's express request. Joel Delgado can try to deny that he summoned me for those reasons, he has as much right to deny it as I do to maintain the opposite. What I do not admit is that he claims that I am lying and that he denies that his sentimental partner was arrested when Operation Union broke out.
Furthermore, what I also do not admit is that in a pitiful article Joel Delgado attributes to me having attacked him for his sexual orientation. Just as he took refuge in family illnesses when his irregular invoices with the Cabildo appeared, now he intends to hide behind an alleged attack on his sexual orientation that has not occurred.
As he hides behind the former popular mayor, taking his name in vain and attributing his inheritance to himself. I imagine that he will also accept, as part of it, the indecency of waiting to present the motion of censure until two councilors left the prison in which they were precisely for looting Arrecife (something they already acknowledged in court).
And yes, I recognize that I have commented on Joel Delgado, not on his sexual orientation, but on his despicable behavior with his partner, the pressures to which he subjected him, or the brutal emotional blackmail of which he made him a victim.
The transcripts of the conversations between Joel Delgado and his partner, and of the SMS they exchanged, recount Delgado's constant harassment, a permanent pressure for him to accede to his demands.
But he not only pressured by repeatedly reiterating his requests. He demanded that his partner not call him anymore. He accused him of lying when he said he loved him while he did not accede to his requests. He confronted him with the contradiction of presuming love when he did not prove it with his actions, since he not only failed to get his mother a job at the Arrecife City Council, but he did not deposit money as before to face certain personal economic needs.
That story, extremely unpleasant, is what leads me to comment on Joel Delgado, and not his sexual orientation. I find the exercise of any type of violence in any type of relationship intolerable. I am disgusted by emotional blackmail and pressure. I am outraged that someone uses the feelings of another person to extort them and obtain economic favors.
No. I have not commented on Joel Delgado's sexual orientation. I have commented on how he used his relationship with his sentimental partner, who was a councilor in Arrecife, to try to get his mother a job at the City Council while, incidentally, demanding that he cover certain vital needs, subjecting him to pressure that can be described as blackmail.
It is chilling to contemplate, through the transcripts, a man in love with a younger man in whom he has believed to find someone worthy of his love when, really, he had the bad luck of meeting someone who behaves like a leech.
What I criticize is Joel Delgado's behavior, not that his partner was called Ubaldo Becerra.
By Carlos Espino
