He has just left for his corner in history in 2020. What a year! As many say. It was the year of evil, which was born on December 31 in Wuhan, China. And from ‘auán’ he began to kill people. The bald girl walked around the world at ease, taking random people, of all ages, from all countries and from all conditions, but especially the elderly, because this death liked gray hair. And December ends with more than 1.8 million deaths in the world. In Colombia we mourned, as we dismissed the year, 42,909 people. On the 31st, 304 left. God.
Everything fell apart, evil locked us up. It was a shocking, sad, and painful year, full of confinements, fears, economic losses, unemployment, planes on the ground and purposes in the air. Covid-19 even took away our smile, since the mask was the fashionable garment. A dear character told me that you have to put on a mask so that death does not recognize you. And alcohol has never been so urgent, as the same milk in the family basket.
We say goodbye to 2020 with pain and anger because, apart from so much damage, it took many lives of loved ones, including characters, who are like a family of one, or it had close ones in the ICU for whom we pray or continue to pray so that win the battle.
In days gone by, Armando Manzanero, that romantic, inspired, uncomplicated Mexican left, whose enchanting boleros have sung the greatest voices in the world. ‘We are boyfriends’, ‘This afternoon I saw it rain’. Or the one that the shy honeymooners say: ‘I’m going to turn off the light.’ Or the apology of lazy presidents when they come out with unfulfilled promises: “We took time.” Or ‘With you I learned’. I like ‘Adoro’: “I adore the street we met on. The night when we met. I adore the things you say to me, our happy times I adore them, my dear ”. Of course there are things that you are told when you are not happy, that it is difficult to adore them, my dear.
But it also took almost a hundred doctors and health personnel. They, in many forgotten hospitals, poorly protected at times, poorly paid in others, have been there, putting their chest. More than 20,000 have been infected. They have fairly achieved some bonus. Anything is darling. Thank you very much, a million thanks, my characters of the year. And to think that at first they were attacked. This is how we are.
In spite of everything, like every New Year, today we are with renewed hopes, with faith that this 2021, or the Government, will soon bring us vaccines for all. You had to eat a grape so that this country could do better, so that many people’s souls could heal. Well, some were pawns of death. And so that the Government does not say afterwards “we needed time” to defend the social leaders, the reinserted, or face the chilling issue of the massacres (90 in a year), so that peace may be strengthened, without political revenge . This is all still a shame.
And hopefully we do not continue with other things that they give us for shame. In this year of tightening their belts, with a red flag because there is no cold in the refrigerators, the honorable congressmen, who did not want to freeze the millionaire salary, were increased, by law, 1.7 million a month, and with character retroactive. About 20 million a year. And for the minimum wage, 32,000 pesos. Don’t play that waltz because they kill me. And there is another increase, by law.
How would it be that some felt sorry, sorry, sorry and said they are going to donate that talk. God willing it is not ‘popolism’. San Andrés y Providencia could be rebuilt, as it seems that the Government continues to sing ‘With you all the way’.
Let’s hope that the mood that prevails with the new year helps, that employment is reactivated. It is urgent, key. And that there is awareness of taking care of ourselves as much as possible, because the virus did not go away with 2020. Happy year to all.
LUIS NOÉ OCHOA
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