When the Military Emergency Unit (UME) was created in October 2005, during the Zapatero Government, criticism from the (ultra) right – then everything was in the PP, including Abascal – was heard in Tibet. The arguments were a macabre joke, in view of the disaster of the last few hours with the DANA and taking into account how the UME, specialized in rescue during major catastrophes, has helped so many people, so many towns and has saved so many lives. Those of the PP and its orbit said that the EMU was “a pharaonic whim” or an “instrument invented” by the PSOE Government to go demilitarizing the Armed Forces, turning them into an NGO when the Army’s function is war, putodefender Spain and that blablabla of God-country-king that they love … They were in that argument in 2005 and in those reasons they are in 2024.
Right now, institutions are focused on rescues and caring for those affected of all kinds by the worst DANA of the century in Spain; also in preventing further damage, because the storm continues very strong across half the peninsula. There will be time – say the politicians – for the supervision of the competent administrations, above all, that of the Valencian Government of Carlos Mazón, which co-governed with Vox until recently and continues to have the support of the extreme right to maintain power. Indeed, Institutional times are different from those of the press, in particular, and of society, in general, which is why the string of reproaches against the Executive of the Generalitat for the management of this tragedy has not been long in coming on social networks and the channels provided by the press. Our duty is to contrast everything and in that we are, however, already with too many certainties of errors and negligence committed by this autonomous administration. You can consult them HERE.
Beyond the specific failures that we collect in Public (late alerts, lack of work forecast, cancellation of the Valencian Emergency Unit without giving it time to implement,… ), and in the absence of more perspective and time to analyze all the issues of such a complex and painful situation, There are two issues that are the flag of the coalition governments of PP and Vox, only of the PP in the case of the Community of Madrid and of the entire neoliberal right: the privatization of public affairs and the denialism of the climate emergency, among others, which comes from an absolute contempt for science and a greater love for matters of faith, call it religion or call it conspiracies of all kinds. .
The facts, however, have long demonstrated the detriment of this ideology, at least since the pandemic, as confirmed by the tragedies in nursing homes lacking resources and personnel or the denialist mobilizations of vaccines and infections. Just yesterday, along those lines, the press chief (a saying) of alvise Perez came back online with the crazy theory of demolished dams as the cause of the floodsand then he would say a prayer or so for the victims. All together in a handful of characters, the hoax and the sentence, and that guy still has accreditation as a “journalist” in Congress, by the way.
Expert scientists have been warning us for a long time about increasingly extreme phenomena caused by the climate emergency: a lot of rain in record time and long periods of drought and extreme heat, among others. There are territories with greater risk (Valencian Community, Catalonia or Eastern Andalusia are some), they tell us, although The effects of the acceleration of climate change are noticeable throughout Spain, whether Galicia or La Rioja. It is very important to adapt the territories to these risks to save lives (construction continues near rivers), but the Generalitat of Mazón chose to take advantage of the suppression of the beach bar which they said was the Valencian Emergency Unit (as Mariano Rajoy and his people said about Zapatero’s EMU) and give many millions of euros to bullfightingthat It is the great example of caring for nature, as everyone knowsand that is why a Francoist bullfighter of vice president.
It is exhausting to have to remember over and over again that our taxes go to that and those of those who do not pay what is proportional to their capital must go too and immediately; They should be used to reinforce urban developments and public prevention and rescue infrastructures that are especially necessary at this time. Contemplating the subliminal image that this DANA is leaving us is the best way to understand everything: workers completely unprotected by their companies, which send them to work in such a serious situation, and UME soldiers, firefighters, police or civil guards (your taxes) rescuing people with water up to their necks. There is no consolation: denialism kills.
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