Two weeks have passed since the unfortunate DANA that fell on Valencia and it still seems like a lie to us, as false is the story of the Valencian president who did not want to acknowledge any guilt, trying to hide behind the squid ink of easy recourse, pointing to the malfunctioning of the “system ”. No, Mr. Mazón, this is not how you are going to overcome and put an end to this drama that, at the very least, must affect you as much as it does those you represent. Neither the dead, missing, destroyed lives nor the lost property or the suffering caused by his frivolity are redeemed by appearances like his. There is still a lot of fabric to be cut and decisions to be made for political elites to live up to their citizens, who have given us admirable examples of how to behave in crisis situations. His almost three-hour verbiage does not even reach the tips of the boots of the affected people.
When Espartero and Maroto signed the agreement that put an end to the first Carlist war, their embrace in the Vergara countryside remained in history as an icon of Hispanic reconciliation – and not of surrender of one of the parties – thanks to the watercolor that immortalized the moment and we owe it to the illustrator Pablo Antonio de Béjar. The famous painting of Vergara’s Embrace. 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 the PSOE, to also represent for the future the necessary unity in the pain that we have seen so much comforts those affected by DANA. Men and women of all ages, devastated by the violent volley from the skies, embraced in the first days those who came to their aid, whether as volunteers, local authorities, soldiers, firefighters or police. My journalist colleagues – the first to arrive – have a thousand and one stories to tell of the suffering shared with those people to whom they comforted and showed empathy with words or spontaneous gestures of consolation.
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