One of the heads that Carlos Mazón has made has had minimal responsibilities in the management of the DANA catastrophe, but the little he did do, he did it in those ways. Nuria Montes, the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, who was considered to be one of the PP’s star signings for the new Consell, has been an addition that came directly from the tourism sector lobby, where the PP places great weight of the Valencian economy. Montes is leaving through the back door, at a time when investments in the Valencian territory have had to change their course.
Montes, 55 years old from Madrid, but with a large part of her professional career developed in Alicante, was for nearly 30 years general secretary of the hotel association Hosbec -an association based in Benidorm-, she has also held positions in the CEOE and in the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV). During the last four years of this stage, she coincided with Mazón as president of the Alicante Provincial Council, and when he took the step to the Palau de la Generalitat, Montes was hired to direct the department of Valencian economic drivers. The bet showed that Mazón was betting everything on tourism.
Nuria Montes’ role in the DANA crisis has been limited. As president of the board of directors of Fira València, she had to manage pavilion 8, intended to be the morgue where the bodies of the victims arrived and, after being identified, deliver them to the funeral homes. But his gesture became distorted when it came to explaining to the relatives how the bodies of their loved ones were managed, and he demonstrated it with some unfortunate words: “Bodies are not going to be handed over to families here, access to them will not be allowed.” relatives to the area where we have custody of all the deceased, so they have to wait for the court to call and the delivery of the relevant documentation. The best place for families to wait for news from their relatives is at home.”
This lack of empathy with families who asked to know where their loved one was, and when the victims who were increasing in number day by day in those days were still being counted, caused me to have to take a step back and ask for forgiveness. She did this through a video, with a more careful environment and gestures, in the Emergency Center, and dressed in a sweatshirt also from the same service. “I regret that my words were lacking in empathy, in that sensitivity that we all seek in these difficult moments,” said Montes.
But another of the chapters that has finished finishing off the image of Nuria Montes has been when a video from last March was rescued, when at a business conference she frivolized about climate change, when the debate that is currently going on about The table is to fight against this challenge that causes meteorological disasters such as DANA on October 29.
Nuria Montes’ words showed her economistic vision of the reality of climate change, a vision also subject to the ever-present tourist exploitation: “If climate change brings something good, it is precisely the extension of the tourist season.”
Carlos Mazón lets loose with Nuria Montes, a councilor who has not provided empathy when that was almost the only thing that was asked of her in the face of a disaster of the dimensions experienced, and because tourism is not going to be the necessary solution to rebuild the destroyed territory, because there is life beyond this economic sector.
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