When truth is stranger than novellas

Time and time again, officials or former officials accused of crimes against the public administration resort to hackneyed words –because they are not even arguments– with which they describe themselves as victims, and the media, as producers of novels, referring to their cases.

And so, without something to support their alleged innocence, they hide –unsuccessfully– in fallacies that, after repeating them so much, end up believing them. If there is no justice in Panama, it is not the fault of the media.

Each government has been able to integrate into its ranks those officials that the Constitution points out as counterweights of power. Consequently, we have that the role of justice has been reduced to impunity.

In Panama, what those politicians call novels are facts that exceed the imagination capacity of a writer, because there is no ingenuity that can conceive, even remotely, the absurdity of our reality. The history of this country begins to be written by those who see themselves as winners, when they are part of this profound drama that the citizens of this country are experiencing. It is because of them that there are no smiles or happiness, except in those privileged homes where the parties are paid for with our money. – LA PRENSA, Oct. 17.