OPINION: New leaks show all at risk

The Varelaleaks have once again confronted two pillars of our democratic society: the right to privacy and the right to information. On this occasion, and in congruence with the actions against the Wikileaks, the Panama Papers and other specific cases, La Prensa has decided to generate content from the material that we consider of public interest. These leaks offer valuable elements for the understanding of what happened in a specific period of the mandate of Juan Carlos Varela, the way in which the former president managed the public image, the relationship with other actors in society and the factors that shaped the landscape in which we are in today.

On the other hand, we cannot help raising a voice to put on the table the complex and dangerous situation in which we find ourselves. A cell phone is a tool without which contemporary life is not understood: through mobile phones one loves, hates, pays, charges, manages, scolds, threatens, governs and destroys. These leaks originate in the mobile of one who occupied the highest authority of the Republic. That means everyone, without exception, we are in a situation of tremendous vulnerability, a vulnerability that endangers from personal relationships to commercial transactions. And that, in the worst-case scenario, it conditions us as individuals, because it makes us susceptible to moral, economic and all kinds of blackmail.

How many decisions of senior officials have not been defined by threat and fear? Who has kidnapped this country? And, finally, who will give us peace, legality, the certainty that there is justice? Economic and of all kinds. –LA PRENSA, Nov10