Pamela Cerdeira

We are going to fuck them

For every politician celebrating a victory in terms of "we already screwed them," I see Socorro in the background looking for her son, for the more than 110,000 disappeared.

By Pamela Cerdeira

I have always resented the expression "carro completo", I hate that way in which the political class refers to "winning", in my head the image of the "carro completo" is a wheelbarrow full of stolen gold coins that are now going to "chingar". My imagination is not fortuitous, it is built on real stories of corruption and families that get rich under the protection of power, no matter if that power is a mayor's office or the presidency. But my imagination has also been built from the phrases of political characters, especially those used in campaign, the way they refer to "the other" and how they think they will win, sometimes fills me with anger and sometimes with the desire to cry.

I know that some will think that stridency is a symptom of a healthy democracy, that congressmen and women grabbing each other's hats is the controlled scenario that prevents this from happening in the street, that a small dose of shouting is the one that prevents the sudden explosion of the express pot. But I can't see it that way.

For every politician celebrating a victory in terms of "we already screwed them", I see in the background Socorro looking for her son, the more than 110 thousand missing people, the femicides in the State of Mexico, the people who know they will have to lose their affection for their cell phones, or the fortnight at the call of "they already know it", who know that the cameras in public transportation only serve to make good youtube videos, where the color of the assailant's hood does not even change. I think of the people who were surprised by the media scandal of the drought in Nuevo Leon when their municipalities have been without water for years, and will continue the same. I think that anyone who took the responsibility of power seriously would think: "qué chinga", once they have won, and not "nos los chingamos", unless of course, they are thinking "nos los chingamos", and are not only talking about their rivals.