There are few things as deafening as silence, said Mario Benedetti. And really today the silence of the multicolored coalition on the “Marset case” is surprising. They don’t speak, and the few who do say something say “I didn’t know,” “we weren’t informed.” They constantly seek to install other themes so as not to talk about their responsibility in that case. I wish those topics were linked to what people feel and need, but this would not be the case.
One day in and the next we are also news: because we gave a passport to a well-known drug trafficker who told us that he was in a hotel in Dubai, when in fact he was staying, yes, but in a prison from which he got out thanks to the passport we sent him; because a former partner of Marset was arrested with drugs and on the third day of being imprisoned he “committed suicide”…..with a blanket; because in Paraguay a small plane landed in the field of a “Uruguayan producer and businessman” with a large shipment of drugs.
And in the midst of this scandal, the silence is thunderous. It seems that for the government of Lacalle Pou, people do not deserve answers.
It is quite a novel in which there are coincidences such as the fact that the president and his (then) wife traveled to Dubai on dates close to the delivery of the passport to the drug trafficker, that a former partner commits suicide, that planes land in fields of Uruguayans in Paraguay rented to businessman Ignacio Heisecke. Businessman who does business with Horacio Cartes (former president of Paraguay accused of money laundering by the US), linked to soccer (Conmebol, which appointed former senator Bordaberry as controller of AUF), brother of Sarah, a very successful Paraguayan businesswoman. married to a Uruguayan Martín Bordaberry…. Ahh and the lawyer of Marset’s former partner who committed suicide with a blanket is a former police officer who was a lawyer for Cartes who fell years ago when she brought drugs to Marset. Too many silences from the government in the face of so many coincidences.
The prequel to this novel had the chapter on Cambio Nelson, for which a Colorado leader known for contributing large sums of money to the campaigns was prosecuted, and that of Mayra Cirkunel (partner of a minister) linked to money laundering, as well as containers of “soybeans” that either pass through here and are discovered in another country, or appear at the port, where the scanners did not work for months. And speaking of discovering, we cannot discover low-flying planes (those that bring drugs) because the radars we have do not pick them up since they are for other types of planes. And all this in a country in which the government parties have blocked a political party financing law that would provide a lot of transparency, leaving us protected from the illegal financing of electoral campaigns by, among others, businessmen linked to drug trafficking.
That’s why people have more questions than answers and start to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.
Anyway, all of this reminds me of the speech from a play I saw years ago (based on “Puertas interior” by Florencio Sánchez) where a domestic worker, due to a peculiar situation with her employers, said to another: “And everything stays in the family!!!…. Gross!!”
The problem is that all this is not a movie or a play that we can stop seeing. Drug trafficking and the increase in violence and insecurity linked to drug trafficking is one of the main problems perceived by the population. The lack of work, the famine, the alarming rates of suicide (reported and not) that neighbors throughout the country know exist, because they live it on a daily basis, are the things that anguish the majority of the population.
People are afraid and want solutions. The government does not seem to be busy answering these questions or clarifying the novel by Marset and friends.
What is the government dealing with?
