He descended from the Falcon on the steps and, without raising his head, got into the car that, in just ten minutes, took him to the royal residence of La Mareta. Forty-eight hours after his arrival on the island, he reluctantly interrupted his vacation to greet the president of the Canary Islands and the president of the Island Council of Lanzarote and settle, without contemplation and with the reverence of his party colleagues, the request that users of the Canary buses benefit from the 100% bonus that travelers on commuter trains in the Peninsula will enjoy.
From that moment, in which he left speechless and without arguments those who may be the two most loyal and dedicated positions to the cause of Pedro Sánchez, nothing has been heard from the president again. The movements of vehicles follow one another at the entrance of the palace, but there is no news about him. He has chosen, as on previous occasions, to live in a bubble in Lanzarote without wanting to know absolutely anything about the reality that surrounds his lavish vacations paid in such an obscene way with public funds from all citizens.
He has not even wanted to interrupt his rest to inquire about the more than 500 migrants who, in less than 48 hours, have arrived in Lanzarote in one of the most intense migratory crises that has been experienced on the island in such a short period of time. Nor to support the Red Cross volunteers and other NGOs who, once again, have done their best to avoid exposing a Government that continues to opt for improvisation in migratory matters.
He has had time, however, to share on his Twitter account that "the Government of Spain has evacuated 3,900 Afghan collaborators for a year." In the Canary Islands we already know that President Sánchez and his Government love to take a photo and show their solidarity when it comes to media crises such as the one that occurred a year ago in Afghanistan or the one that broke out as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. For his Government, very socialist and progressive, there are migrants of two kinds and, unfortunately, those
who arrive in the Canary Islands fleeing from hunger, war, persecution or the drought that is experienced in the African continent are not so glamorous for his photo library.
The president who sometimes acts as if he were a monarch, perhaps intoxicated by the luxuries of the palace built by King Hussein I of Jordan, has once again demonstrated with his silence that African migration in the Canary Islands is a problem that he does not want to face and does not want to assume as a direct responsibility. Another thing is when the crisis occurs in Ceuta and Melilla. He is faster in the face of media pressure that always breaks out when Morocco moves a piece in both autonomous cities. Here, in the Canary Islands, however, his strategy is that there is no talk of migration and he has, for this, the submissive loyalty of those who know in advance that their future depends on the future of Sánchez. I am referring to Ángel Víctor Torres and Dolores Corujo.
You cannot write from rage, nor from anger, said Marco Aurelio in his book, Meditations, a treatise on Stoic philosophy. But how to control the rage when once again this land is plagued by irregular migration, when in 48 hours more than 500 people arrive risking their lives or when children continue to die on our coasts, while their faithful squires avoid giving explanations or pointing to the European Union as responsible so as not to disturb or disturb the peace of Sánchez.
Torres has once again acted as an affiliate of Sanchismo, not even of the PSOE, and not as the president of the Canary Islands. Crises must be managed by looking at them head-on and, as the highest authority on the islands, demanding that his boss make decisions. It is the least you can do for your land. And if he does not have the courage or the autonomy to put the defense of the islands before the acronyms, it is that perhaps he does not know the meaning of what it represents to be the president of the Canary Islands.
The crisis that is happening today in Lanzarote was experienced a little more than a year ago at the Arguineguín dock or in 2006 in the so-called cayucos crisis. However, on this occasion it is part of a series that began in 2019 and has remained very much alive since then. Almost 60,000 migrants have arrived in the islands in just over two years and the number of deaths (thousands, according to NGOs) has placed the Canary Islands as one of the deadliest routes on the planet. We have a serious problem and everything points to it getting worse in the future.
The president who would like to be a monarch and not have to answer for his actions or assume responsibility for his actions will be able to continue counting in the Canary Islands with those who have accepted, without protest, that migration is not talked about. They will be able to move the threads they want and try to silence their own, but they will always find a people who will not allow us to be treated as a second-class land. This is not just a land of sun and beach. It is a land of values, respect and struggle. And we Canarians are and will be loyal, but never submissive.