Miguel Angel Sandoval
After 25J, the networks have been lavish in creating various fears in the face of the emergence of the unknown party that went to the ballot, this is Semilla. Without further arguments, fears are spread that have nothing to do with reality and are not related to Semilla’s agenda. I say this for elementary objectivity. But especially since so much ignorance and bad faith cannot be tolerated in the attempts to make or build, an agenda that does not exist anywhere from the purposes that we sometimes heard from spokesmen for the Semilla party.
The first of the fears is the label that is used for any progressive current, even if it is part of the system: it is saddled in the blink of an eye, the description of communist. The old fear of child-eaters that has accumulated for more than half a century, originating in the cold war and is unpacked every time there is something progressive in the environment and something outside the system created to endlessly reproduce corruption or impunity.
It is part of the simplification that is used to disqualify. If Semilla’s candidate has not been given the guerrilla label, it is because in the war years he studied in other countries, nothing more. But, if he and his party are accused of communism, of reds, of wanting to turn our country into another Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela. And I think they are wasting time on it. No one in that party or its candidates is in the task of turning our country into something other than a country without corruption and without impunity. And that is a democratic, republican creed.
Turning the fight against corruption and impunity into a communist creed is the worst mistake made by those who accuse the candidate Arévalo and his party of communists. It is walking lost in political, ideological and common sense terms. It is not like that, by that way, that they are going to avoid votes for that current. In the same way that they did not avoid votes by accusing Sandra of being a guerrilla, without being one. Guatemalan society may not say much, but it is not slimy.
The other fear is the idea that the Semilla candidate is going to change the constitution to make it something other than what it is. This fear is more unfounded than any other. The truth of the matter is that, if we take into account the hard data of the national situation and the current challenges, to fight corruption it is not necessary to change the constitution, and this is the same for the fight against impunity. It is not necessary for this to introduce changes in the political constitution of the country.
In any case, if something is needed, it is to develop it. As an example, although the constitution says that there should not be monopolies, for this there are no tools that make it possible. A competition law could help in compliance with the current political constitution of the country. In the same way, from the first articles there is talk of the common good, this is something that should be promoted and not as is currently being deliberately forgotten. As can be seen, there is a huge field to make a better country without having to modify the political constitution of the country. On the contrary, it should be fulfilled and developed. There are several issues that if they demand it.
This is a fear that is created and spread by all possible means, knowing that there are people who are enormously afraid of change and especially if it has to do with the constitution. But there is no need to worry, in the proposal of any party that is going to the second round, the issue of changing the constitution is registered, except on the order of the day.
And the third fear is perhaps the least important and the one that most reveals its origin in a misreading of a global commitment, such as the 2030 agenda, whose origin is found in the United Nations. Indeed, in 2015, the member countries of the UN approved the sustainable development agenda. In a few words, these are the measures that are urgently needed in each country, according to their particular needs, but in accordance with these sustainable development objectives.
From this account, combating poverty and extreme poverty is one of the objectives, as well as the defense of the environment and several other issues, to achieve 17 objectives shared by the countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the countries of Europe. In a few words, just listing the continents of the countries that subscribe to the 2030 agenda gives the measure of the changes that need to be made worldwide.
But in our country, everything has been confined to shouting against the so-called gender ideology. And this is really something very elementary, which should not even be a reason for discussion. Guatemala has to advance in the fight against extreme poverty, by reducing environmental problems, by improving education, by expanding health coverage, and after that, if there is time left, in discussing in the appropriate forums on issues related to what is called degender ideology.
And there is no one who is doing the chapina version and in the black campaign, on social networks I warn, of a marginal issue in the 2030 agenda, the central issue for the development of our country, that if the 2030 agenda is not met, which is the continuation of another called the millennium goals that came to light at the beginning of the 21st century, then we would see ourselves with growing famine, with increasing migration and with the scarcity of resources such as water, in a country that should be a model in the use of that good, who would like to have it in African countries that are literally dying of thirst.
In short, the 2030 agenda is a global commitment signed at the United Nations, and this for urgent measures of economic and social development, not to change the sex of any person. So don’t be afraid. On August 20, in the second round, if they go to vote, let it be against corruption, against impunity. Don’t go for the fears they want us to believe.
In short, it is necessary to face up to the fears that the enemies of democracy want to put us through. And in reality, neither the assumption of a communist government, nor the change to the constitution and even less the change in sexual preferences are under discussion in the second round of elections. For national fears, we already have three that are enough: the Cadejo, the Siguanaba and the Llorona, and with these fears, we have enough.
