Fernando Cajas
The clearing of the Electoral Register is the news that coincides with the news that he won his first Olympic gold medal and his second bronze medal. This joy that cannot be stolen from us, that cannot be taken away from us, by anyone, right or left. No one. Adriana Ruano, nutritionist, athlete who made us cry, it’s the cry that makes the country, those tears that Jean Pierre Brol also made us shed amid our ignorance of shooting sports and not that was only visible in target memes. shooting from the village at the fair. What Adriana and Jean Pierre have done, with so much discipline, years of effort, secret struggle, many victories, few victories, in a country co-opted by the mafia, what the two Guatemalans have made this allows us to feel. we are Guatemalans.
Although united sports is still co-opted in many ways because leaders arrived whose goal was not to develop sports or support athletes, it was, unfortunately, to steal state funds and to gain privileges and gain access to power and control. And this fact that Guatemalan athletes participate in the Olympics with their flag and their anthem is the result of the administration of President Bernardo Arévalo. Of course the politicians, from the left or the right, from all sides, politicians, want to bring grist to their mill. Here is the success and praise for the athletes, she and he have sacrificed themselves, themselves, their coaches, their family sacrifice, the leaders who were not, if they supported, all of them is a disaster and despite the co-optation of the united sport that is part of the co-optation of the State and justice, nevertheless, athletes shine all over the world.
Jean Pierre and Adriana’s special success is the success of the entire Guatemalan Olympic sports delegation. Sport is a social practice that requires a lot of support, a lot of discipline, a lot of love and it is, and was, the social glue that unites us. And indeed if the weapon with which Adriana won the gold was a whole country connected to it, full of pain, full of everything, but which, finally, finally, was filled with light when it just breathing, aiming and achieving the Olympic gold and record. In the distance we have the map of this country that unites, that is excited and that recognizes that culture is ultimately the vital element of integration. Sport as culture. Then it is cultural practices, music, literature, dance, poetry, art and education that will make us and make us come out of the dark hole in which the corrupt have decided to sink us.
At the same time, in the daily reality of Guatemala, the public ministry wants the coup d’état which is already stupid. The high electoral court is increasingly intervening. Now they ask, of course they shouldn’t, for information contained in the electoral roll and its algorithms, information that constitutionally belongs only to the electoral court. This is part of the Attorney General’s specific explanation of her actions, where she has openly stated that she is there to protect democracy, an action that does not suit her. In that sense, his political career at the head of the public ministry has really reduced the criminal investigation, as it has become a selective investigation with the aim of revenge.
Thus, we have this country, which shines in the Olympic medal table thanks to the great effort of its athletes, falling into the pit of arrogance and irrationality because while ‘ in which the public ministry interprets the Constitution according to its will and whim in such a way. that Article 1 of our Constitution says: «The State of Guatemala is organized to protect the person and the family; “Its highest aim is to bring about the common good,” reads the attorney general, and her false doctorate and the co-opted justice system itself because the State is organized to protect some people and their loved ones and the main goal is to punish those thieves, whose names and surnames we know. To show the cynicism of Manuel Baldizón, after the system justice to close the Odebrech case and Baldizón said with complete arrogance, boasting about his false doctorate and without logic in his statements: “this is a blow to the justice system”. judge and do justice!
While the public ministry continues to release criminals and seek freedom for those few corrupt people like Miguel Martínez, responsible for the debate in the Guatemalan Olympic Committee, while the justice system continues against the true democracy of Guatemala, although the album is not only kidnapped. , since this is already a crime as many did with the investigative entity, while a small group of corrupt people want to protect their privileges, the majority of Guatemalans recognize in the success of our Olympic winners the great effort to fight now.
While Jean Pierre and Adriana kiss their Olympic medals and shed tears with all the Guatemalans who want a true country, the smiles of their parents who died on earth and are alive in heaven can be seen. In this national meeting of nationalism we know that many more athletes are crying out for opportunities, the millions of boys and girls who dream that they do not have basic conditions to live. This country has talents and can have many more artists, many more scientists, men and women, engineers, mathematicians, anthropologists, sociologists, craftsmen, poets and astronomers among thousands of destinations we might have if we manage to reclaim democracy, our democracy, not democracy. of politicians and users, a democracy that is built as a project for everyone, our project, that unites us, as the cry of joy of the Olympic achievements unites us. For that we must overcome the abduction of the State and seek our Meeting. Let’s do it, let’s take back this country of ours. If not now, it will never be to Guatemala!
