OPINION: Useful fools

One of the campaign promises of today’s President Cortizo was to fulfill the Transparency Challenge 2019, consisting of evaluating indicators, such as anti-corruption laws, transparency, and accountability, public purchases, justice, access to information and governments, and open data. The results of the evaluation, prepared by the Foundation for the Development of Citizen Freedom, is disappointing: not only are the advances extremely poor, but some have even regressed. Our democracy deteriorates with each administration because, deep down, the absence of accountability and transparency policies promote government opacity. Consequently, democracy runs out of strength; Citizens lose control of our destiny as a nation and we are reduced to the sum of votes necessary for a person or party to come to power … and then ignore us until the next elections. As useful fools, that’s where we end. And this government has given us clear, unequivocal and unquestionable signs that we are only good at giving them votes. We gave up our right to claim and today we only receive the contempt of our rulers. LA PRENSA, Jul. 3.