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Soledad Durazo

The light is set to the wrong direction

We suspect that the light is pointing wrong again, and that it is time for citizens, media and opinion leaders to get back to the conversation that really matters.
The light is set to the wrong direction
By Soledad Durazo

Smokescreens, sabadazos, petate del muerto... How many other expressions come to mind when it comes to diverting attention?

Of course, we are talking about the government's efforts to take the spotlight away from sensitive issues that may cause the image of those who govern to be mistreated in the eyes of the public.

Resorting to such strategies is a deception and is as old as mankind itself, so why should it surprise us? Wasn't the intervention of the serpent that made Eve sin and for whose fault she and Adam were expelled from paradise a deception, quoted in the Bible?

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