Wannabe president – out of his depth

The Vice President, who is obviously – along with his team – at the forefront of the negotiations with the groups that are protesting, has proven to be a completely clumsy, typical novice. The mistakes made go beyond the limits of common sense. His neural network is as scarce as his pride is. If anything directs his actions it is his self-sufficiency, his ignorance, and his infinite greed. None of this goes unnoticed by trade unionists who have been negotiating their whole lives, trained to detect weaknesses, and, without hesitation, rip their counterparts to shreds.

Being a negotiator requires credibility, legitimacy, and the respect of the counterpart. Gaby Carrizo lacks all that, and to this, we must add her personal political appetite. She swears that no one notices him, which is an act of arrogance that provokes anger and delegitimizes him. The first thing she should have done is identify her weaknesses – which are not few – and then appoint real negotiators, something that would have saved the country days or weeks of trauma.

Negotiating with the groups in isolation was also a mistake. Maybe that’s the divide-and-conquer exception. It became clear that the strategy did not work. And the reasons are obvious. The problem is that Gaby and his people think that throwing a few cents into the crowd calms things down. A few months ago, Gaby must have realized that this is not working for her. He literally lived it when nobody took the coins that he threw at the exit of baptism, much less he would work with angry people and that he does not respect him. Underestimating has been one of his worst mistakes.

That leads me to ask, what has Gaby negotiated? If the leaders of the protests had demanded that a gallon of gasoline cost $2, surely they would have achieved it without effort. Before negotiating, and especially in the big leagues, a long learning process – trial and error – is required; then, you have to reason and plan, submit the actions to a strategy, and stick to it. That is clear to his counterpart, but Gaby and his team went to improvise and left them as wimps. Once again, he underestimated his rival.

Finally, your communication strategy has nothing to envy about stupidity. Instead of reporting through official channels, he has engaged in a war on social networks, with propaganda – supposedly anonymous – but the rubric is unmistakable: arrogance and idiocy. I don’t know how far the power of the vice president reaches, but what I do know is where the PRD will stand in the next elections. Perhaps the word ambulance gives you an idea.

If the vice president points to these pyrrhic victories as credentials to aspire to the Presidency, he is not only wrong; he tells us that his greed and incompetence are only outweighed by his ridiculous ego. If the PRD could boast of anything before, it was its negotiators, but from those days to today’s Gaby, there is an abyss, as deep as the crisis that this party is going through, conquered by the most unreliable scum and inept politicians of this country.

Rolando Rodriguez B. La Prensa.