Fight like women

By Pamela Cerdeira

I think we should be used to the horror by now, the propaganda machine of this government is like a crushing roller with spikes loaded with poison. These are its forms. The roller is turned on in waves, certain issues set off the alerts of the normalizers and like attack dogs they start to run. It doesn't matter if they are right or wrong, it doesn't matter if the target of their attacks is a journalist, a woman, a human rights defender or a climate activist, even a friend who dared to have a different opinion. There are generalized attacks that are always used, the most used ones: "he is PRIANISTA", "chayotero", "he lost his privileges"; and the ones that have a couple of years in the arsenal: calling the "adversary" classist and racist. The damage these last two arguments do in public discussion is that when all people are labeled "classist and racist" then no one is anymore, they are wearing out the insult. Even so, understanding that the communication route is something that the regime has perfectly well established (if this is how they had calculated the supply of medicines we would already be Denmark), I was brutally surprised that they used it against Xóchitl Galvez. They shot themselves in the foot.