Two weeks have passed since the unfortunate DANA which fell on Valencia and it still seems to us a lie, just like the story of the Valencian president who did not want to acknowledge any guilt, trying to hide behind the ink of cuttlefish of easy recourse, is false. , pointing out the dysfunction of the “system”. No, Mr. Mazón, this is not how you are going to overcome and put an end to this drama which, at the very least, must affect you as much as those you represent. Neither the dead, the missing, the destroyed lives, nor the lost property, nor the suffering caused by his frivolity are redeemed by appearances like his. There are still many things to cut and decisions to be made for political elites to live up to their citizens, who have given us admirable examples of behavior in crisis situations. Its nearly three-hour verbiage doesn’t even reach the toes of the boots of those involved.
When Espartero and Maroto signed the agreement that ended the First Carlist War, their embrace in the Vergara campaign went down in history as an icon of Hispanic reconciliation – not the capitulation of either side – thanks in watercolor which immortalized history. moment and we owe it to the illustrator Pablo Antonio de Béjar. Vergara’s famous Embrace painting. We would like a similar fraternal gesture, carried out this week at the Palacio de la Marina by two Valencian senators from the PP and PSOE, to also represent for the future the necessary unity in the pain that we have seen so comfort those affected. by DANA. Men and women of all ages, devastated by the violent volley coming from the sky, embraced in the first days those who came to their aid, whether volunteers, local authorities, soldiers, firefighters or police officers. My journalist colleagues, the first to arrive, have a thousand and one stories to tell about the suffering shared with those they comforted and showed with empathy through words or spontaneous gestures of consolation.
