May is burning and there are pitahayas. It’s a year of good pitahayas in one election season that could have been better in several aspects. That is to say, did it happen that there were political parties that did not present any nomination in any of the positions to be elected in the state of Sinaloa? Or was there a situation where candidates were intimidated, campaign staff were deprived of their freedom, or let’s say, their car was burned while it was parked in their home? If any of these questions have a yes answer, that alone is an argument that we did not have the elections that we were able to have and that we had the historical duty to build and live as Mexicans.
Various violent events occurred throughout the country, some of them irreparable, all of them open wounds to our democracy. In the last presidential election, Sinaloa There were several events in the state capital and this year will surely be no different. There is something unhealthy about this time of ours that we all are. But it was not always like this, and we can once again have a certain better context, perhaps not so much in Culiacanbut yes in many parts of Mexico.
From the heat of this afternoon I cannot see myself clearly in front of Sunday’s ballots, not like three years ago, and even less with the clarity and strength of that 2018. How far away that 2018 feels, and how faded its colors.
It is true that a lot has come forward Mexico since 1976 as the sole candidate for the Presidency, and since the late 80s with everything and the “fall of the system”, when the opposition began to win some governorships. Over here, lemon waters arrived that looked like Jamaica but tasted like tamarind, and some of those governors said that the reverse is also a change.
Today, there is still an option missing for the electorate that does not want to vote for a hegemonic six-year opposition, but that is also not very approving of the current direction of politics, be it national or state. That electorate is the type that annuls its vote, if it ever goes to vote; They are the type of people who would crash a red-hot, ripe pitahaya on a ticket that hardly or completely represents them.
There is a lack of conditions to have career politicians and parties that do allow them to run, that or independent candidates do better. But the activism that allows them is not easy these times, as among many thousands of stories, “The Guardian of the Monarchs” shows us, a streaming documentary about the environmental activist Homero Gómez González in a fight to preserve the monarch butterfly. and the environment that allows its life.
A few days ago, scientists from British universities published a study that analytically details that no new oil, gas or coal exploitation licenses are needed to satisfy the expected global energy demand between now and 2050. The good thing is that here the Mayan Train uses a diesel not so polluting, and electric in some sections. The bad thing is the background that Pemex has reported almost 6 thousand situations of spills and leaks between 2015 and 2022 and has barely had any sanctions, while in its areas of operation there is a high incidence of cancer, skin diseases, respiratory and others more associated with hydrocarbon activities. And on this side we should see more of the chemicals from the countryside, which reach the water we all drink. At least without planting them, the pitahayas continue to grow. They do it because of their internal strength that drives them to do so, just like the Mexicans of yesterday and today who want peace.
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