Breathe
By Sandra Romandía
A smiling Clara with much less tension, an incisive Taboada in accusations as he has learned his role and has done well, and a Chertorivski who mentions a thousand words per minute; this is how the candidates behaved in the last debate for the Mexico City Government Head of Government. The meeting revealed not only the chronicle of a disillusionment foretold, but also the uniformity in diagnoses of urban problems as well known as pressing, such as water, housing and transportation. Does it really surprise anyone that after decades in power, the problems remain the same, and the solutions, merely rhetorical?
Santiago Taboada, with his usual vehemence, accused the current government of having surrendered to crime. "When you arrived in Iztapalapa it was not the most insecure mayoralty, you made it," he lashed out. He proposed a shielding of transportation and the creation of a special group to combat extortion, in addition to promising 14,400 cameras in the CDMX and a reformed prosecutor's office that really works. However, one cannot help but wonder, haven't we heard these promises before? What good are cameras if impunity prevails at 99%?
