Bend the knee to  ex-president or face the judicial consequences

Until recently, Ukraine was not a threat to Russia. But just because it is where it is, Russia invaded it to force it to act in its interest, and now it is its enemy. Between people, however, things usually work differently. Generally, there must be a pre-existing reason for two individuals to end up as enemies. Except if one of them is Ricardo Martinelli: if he does not anticipate a genuflex attitude on the part of any person who has decision-making power in some important aspect of his political career or his judicial cases, overnight, that person could magically become his enemy. And, as if it were a country, he attacks it, regardless of whether it has declared war on him or not.

Examples of this abound. Thus, he has sued and/or challenged Isabel de Saint Malo, Farah Urrutia, Kenia Porcell, Baloisa Marquínez, Jerónimo Mejía, Harry Díaz, Eduardo Valdés Escoffery and Juan Carlos Varela. Only in the week that ended Sunday , he challenged the prosecutor Javier Caraballo and criminally denounced the magistrate María Eugenia López Arias.

The latter is accused of violating the Penal Code, to -according to him- “prevent his rise to the presidential throne in 2024.” Why should we be concerned that Martinelli is persecuting public servants who, in the exercise of their functions, have a role in the eventual definition of their judicial and political affairs? Well, among other things, because of the risk that it represents for society that someone who has accumulated so much economic and political power turns into enemies (or friends…), people who are holding positions with powers capable of deciding part of their future. , to in any way remove them from their path. We must be very attentive and look everywhere, because their declarations of war are not going to bring everyone to the same battlefield.

For example, the presiding magistrate goes directly to the Credentials Commission of the National Assembly, and there is no need to explain what we should expect from that wall. Will the population perhaps have to go to the streets to demand that this endless play of legal terror cease now? We are no longer in those times when we laughed when this man jumped on the beds at carnivals or did pirouettes with Jumbo Man. This stopped being fun a while ago, and we are all paying the price. – Monica Palm, La Prensa.

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