In Tías, the PSOE did what was necessary: act. After years of the Cabildo looking the other way, the City Council has assumed the conservation and maintenance of the palm trees located in the vicinity of Hospiten and the LZ-505 with its own resources. We could not allow them to continue dying for even one more day. Palm trees are not part of a set: they are natural heritage, part of the landscape and the identity of our municipality.
While the Tías City Council works with planning and when it is necessary, the Cabildo seems to move at the pace set by the photo agenda of its councilor or whoever is posing that day. You don't govern based on cameras, but on the real needs of the citizens.
After the Tías City Council publicly demonstrated, through the media, that it was being forced to assume the Cabildo's responsibilities, Jacobo decided to come... but not to assume responsibilities, but to prioritize the photo. He arrived with cameras, in a hurry and with a script designed to clean up his image, not the margins.
And the most striking thing is that this staging comes after we have repeatedly demanded that he do his job: keep in good condition what is his responsibility. The edges of a road are not taken care of seasonally or when it suits a headline; they are taken care of all year round.
It is important to clarify it emphatically: the Tías City Council has intervened with all the mandatory permits and reports. No occurrences, no improvisation. That is the way others act. There are files, technical criteria and a very clear priority: to save the palm trees that are still alive and guarantee their conservation in the future. That is the difference between managing and posing.
There is also a difference between spending and investing. What Tías has allocated to this action comes from a municipal budget that could have been used for other needs of the municipality. We did it because the Cabildo's inaction put a natural asset at risk and because citizens cannot continue waiting for someone to deign to act when it fits into the agenda. If the Cabildo arrives late and badly, Tías arrives on time and well.
I will say something very simple to Jacobo Medina: the island does not need sets, it needs planning. Less flashes and more maintenance calendar. Less videos and more crews on the ground. Less stories and more irrigation, pruning, phytosanitary control and technical monitoring. And, above all, loyal coordination between institutions. Because when the Cabildo fails, the one who pays the bill, and not only the economic one, is the resident of Tías who sees how their environment is degraded.
I am not writing this for the argument; I am writing it to demand seriousness. In Tías, the PSOE has complied: we have intervened with all the guarantees and with transparency. Now it is up to the Cabildo to assume its responsibility, establish a stable conservation plan for the LZ-505 and the rest of the island's roads, and do so with light and stenographers... but without turning it into a spectacle.
Natural heritage is not saved with photos. It is saved with work, perseverance and respect for what we are. In that, Tías will continue, as always, to be up to the task. And to those who come only to pose, I remind them that citizens already perfectly distinguish who takes care of their landscape and who only takes care of their image.