The Mazatlan carnival has come to an end. The governor of the state, Rubén Rocha Moya, publicly acknowledged that in the events of that holiday the controls and sanitary measures against the COVID 19 pandemic were relaxed. This was published yesterday by EL DEBATE, in the declarations of the governor of Sinaloa: “We are going to do an evaluation and of course, there are responsibilities to whom it may concern and the responsibilities belong to the government, a municipal government, a state government we assume those responsibilities and the corresponding areas are the ones that finally have to inform us what happened, why he relaxed, if that is how you have appreciated it, we are going to check if this has indeed been the case and the responsibility lies with the government… I hope that what the Secretary of Health said does not happen “they will be happy and then they will they are going to die”, I don’t want anyone to die. We are going to be very aware of that…” (EL DEBATE, 1/Mar/2022).
As mentioned here last Wednesday, the governor decided to cast the lot by making the decision to have a carnival. Now the governor hopes that there will be no deaths from contagion from the COVID 19 pandemic. Wait for the statistics from the health secretary and from those families that suffer some loss or serious health problems. The only thing left to do now, as the governor stated, is to wait: Allea jacta est.
Last Monday, the report of the COVID 19 pandemic from the state government health secretary was zero new cases in Mazatlán, to which Governor Rocha Moya declared: “I would say, look, it is not going very well, no, that would be frivolous on our part, we have to check things in a very responsible way” (EL DEBATE, 1/Mar/2022). The die was cast, the carnival is over. It remains to wait for the next statistics from the health secretary.
from the dirty square
In that wait, a song by Ismael Serrano, quoted here in Lecturas, “Papá, tell me again” is remembered. In this time of recounts, balances and longings that memory goes, surely, more than once Governor Rocha Moya himself heard it and shared it with his children, as our father heard it with us:
The son asks the father to repeat the story of those years of revolt, of May 1968. Of the occupation of the Sorbonne. He asks her to tell him “that beautiful story of that crazy guerrilla who was killed in Bolivia, and whose rifle no one dared to take again, and since that day everything seems uglier.” He begins the nostalgia to penetrate deep.
In the song, the young man asks his father to tell him why, “after so many barricades and after so much fist raised and so much blood spilled, at the end of the game you couldn’t do anything, and under the cobblestones there was no beach sand.” A change takes place, from Lenin’s pamphlet “what to do”, to a devastating “what happened”. It is remembered how Octavio Paz’s verses weighed and weigh like concrete, they are: “immortal phrases engraved by light in pure blocks of astonishment.”
Some nights, in the midst of loneliness and memory, Serrano’s song plays: “The defeat was very hard: everything that was dreamed of rotted in the corners, was covered with cobwebs.” In the midst of those longings and the endorphins of the night exercise, the verses of the song are heard: “but it has to rain, the square is still dirty”. And now, nostalgia is no longer Paz, Spinoza or Nietzsche. It’s just a big sorrow, in the middle of the starry sky, the lonely night walk, there is the certainty that that moment is the only thing there is, because, “however, sometimes I think that in the end everything did not matter: the hosts continue falling on who talks more…” (Readings, EL DEBATE, 25/Mar/2018).
Paragraphs: Union election in governance
The National Electoral Committee of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) declared Ricardo Madrid the winner, in the elections of Section 53 of Sinaloa last Friday. Yesterday, he took office as the new general secretary of that union section, which brings together education workers who have a collective contract with the state government. The union election process took place within a framework of governability throughout the State. When in other entities there are executions of organized crime (Michoacán), ungovernability due to insecurity (Sonora), in Sinaloa union elections are held in a democratic and governability framework.
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