Breathe
By Claudia Pérez Atamoros
These are times of illegalities. To hell with institutions. Fuck ethics.
The first thing is to "inform". The rest is the least of it.
But how to abstract from the illegally newsworthy?
I leave it to the communication scholars...
I only know that the most relevant headlines and articles have revolved -in the last few months- around an illegality. The opposition and Morena, the president and the reporters left aside ethics and respect for the law, for the electoral times to join, ALL of them, in a snowball that dragged so much filth that here we are, today, criticizing one for being Jewish, the other for feeling Indian, someone for insisting on not adding up and one more for being a tantrum.
I am afraid. I don't know if fear is always universal. Undoubtedly it is part of the human being since ancient times. Even the biblical ones. But... my fear is earthly. It does not let me sleep.
My hands are sweating. My vagus nerve is in permanent stimulation with the stress and anxiety generated by the fact that, a year away, I am not clear about where I stand or how to look at the upcoming elections.
It won't be long now. And the traditional year of Hidalgo begins: you know, chin chin... the one who left something behind.
I voted for the Morena project. I was naïve, foolish, lazy... I believed in each and every one of the personalities that joined him and like many of them, today I feel that he has left me in debt in many areas. That is why I have no doubt that the robbery is going to be of great importance.
But then I ask myself, will it be in the same proportion as in previous six-year terms? For the time being, my memory is bad and my fear grows when I see Rosario Robles, for example, bathing in purity. And what about the Master Swindle, the criminal case was dismissed, but she was not exonerated of her responsibility. She went to the administrative area and is in the process of offering reparation for the damage. Innocent dove, she is not.
There is also Lozoya, the Segalmex case, the report with 22 paragraphs similar to Xóchitl's, the pirate minister...
We swim among seas of news filth, of "fake news", doubly and triply malicious. Between politicking and puerile information. Among heightened and increased egos and no vision of strategists.
Those of us who believe that human rights are inalienable do not have it easy. Nor because we are women. Pessimistic vision! Let's have our illusions: WE WILL HAVE A PRESIDENT!
At what price and at what cost. Simone de Beauvoir was not wrong when she said that "fear and the "vertigo of terror" motivate the force to keep things as they are through the systematic process of idealization. But... There is Helen Keller to remind me that "fear is a dark shadow that fades when you face it". And no matter how much fear I may have provoked by the uncertainty of the times I envision, I know that there are moments ahead, too, of deep analysis, of profound selectivity, of analyzing, with a cool head and a tamed heart, the promises of each one but above all and above all, the coherence of life and the ethics of each one of us.
Let's face what is coming with the vagus nerve well exercised. Let's remember that this trained nerve helps us to be alert but calm, to be prepared to respond appropriately to dangerous situations.
Feminists may hate me, but... being a woman does not mean we win. Being a woman still doesn't guarantee me anything. Neither rights, much less life.
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