Burning Norma

By Pamela Cerdeira

"Burn", I repeat the word and my skin tingles, I remember Male and her desperate screams to prevent justice from putting her aggressor on the street, it has been because of that, that strength that has allowed him to remain behind bars. I think of Luz Raquel, burned alive in a park in Jalisco. It must have taken longer for her body to burn than for the authorities to remove the blame from the main suspect, the fastest investigation in history. And I am thinking of Minister Norma Piña, not of the piñata kicked and then set on fire in the Zócalo, I am thinking of all the words of President Andres Manuel López Obrador in the morning, because burning has a double meaning, and that one, to take away the prestige, is what he has done in recent weeks, either from his mouth or from the mouths of journalists who ask questions to suit him. His point of view about the minister is so macho that if she has reached that point "it was thanks to him", if she remains seated instead of standing up when he arrives "it is thanks to him that he allows it".