Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
The chief executive and his court of tinsel lovers spend between 90 and 100% of their time producing a mediocre quality morning show. When more audiovisuals are required, due to some calamity that demands extra hours of production, they record small capsules of the chief executive sitting in front of a desk or with a telephone in his hand. These images become tiny windows from which we observe, as if it were a reality show, the apparent activities of the chief executive. After Hurricane Otis made landfall with category 5 on the coast of Guerrero, for the first time, the majestic and very expensive National Palace would not be the best scenario to record these tiny videos. So, his audiovisual production team set out to find an outdoor space with a bit of mud, a jeep and a lot of uniformed people for the shooting, as well as people with Guerrero physiognomy to walk alongside the president. To make the reality show more credible, the media were allowed to film on the road with the chief executive in a Suburban and his secretaries of state on foot, glued to his window. In the distance, the orders of the nation's leader could be heard blurring with the ambient noise. It sounded like he was working. They took it as an audiovisual production firefighter.
