To date, the public wonders what the government of Salomón Jara will do with the works that were half-delivered by the last government. Although it is true that it has become clear that those who looted the treasury and misused the resources allocated to social benefit works for Oaxacans will not go unpunished, the question remains as to whether they will remain that way or be intervened by the current government to prevent its deterioration. We are referring to four emblematic works: the “Álvaro Carrillo” Cultural Center, the “Símbolos Patrios” work, the Interior Circuit and the Huatulco Convention Center. Said works, as we commented on time, were delivered to the Oaxacans without having been completed; In addition, they are made with materials of questionable quality, which has caused collapse and rapid deterioration.
There is another project in which hundreds of millions of pesos were spent again, but, due to the series of irregularities that occurred, in the period of delivery-receipt to the Jara Cruz government, the service was suspended, affecting thousands and thousands of users who already had said medium, as an incentive to their working life. We refer to the so-called CityBus. As everyone knows, the aforementioned project has been a bottomless barrel of resources since the last two years of the Gabino Cué government. It recovered in the last administration only to make more investments that —as we already mentioned— have been unsuccessful. According to government works analysts, the aforementioned project has meant more than a billion pesos, which is a great paradox in an entity that has many thousands of deficiencies.
However, we come back to the same thing. What will the current administration do to prevent said poorly done, half-delivered or failed works from continuing to deteriorate and become useless, almost like wasted money? If what it is about is exposing the old regime, it makes no sense. There is full awareness among society that there must be punishment, prior investigation of those corrupt who misused the resources of the Oaxacan people. Media lynching, then, is unnecessary. What must be privileged is the application of the law without further ado. And do it without consideration and without threats or feints. If you are going to act, let it be done, period.
The “abuses” and customs
In our entity, to the applause of the indigenologists, the validity of the uses and customs is greatly pondered. At the national level and since the 1990s, Oaxaca set the standard for what is now known from an electoral perspective as Indigenous Normative Systems. The community assemblies elected their authorities in a sometimes rotating manner. But the political parties and the false social redeemers arrived to stick their noses in and that ancestral custom was perverted. Said uses and customs also have their assurances. There are communities that continue to view with suspicion that a woman governs them. Others imprison women, children, sheep or dogs alike. Most of all, whoever comes to the position of mayor has to have done talacha in the community from topil, to be able to be in the dome of municipal power. That the Council of Elders or the tatamandones, whose importance has been reduced due to the political pragmatism of arrangements and complicity.
On Monday, February 27, the news broke of the lynching of two people in San Juan Atepec, Ixtlán. We are one of the entities, along with Puebla, characterized by doing justice by their own hand and in a savage way. The bloodthirsty mob prevented the arrival of state police and the National Guard. Like fattened animals, they burned alive those who, according to their particular judgments, had previously committed illicit acts. And in recent years, there is quite a history of this type of action in the state. Stoned, cremated or beaten to death. The cases have occurred even in the same municipal agencies of the Oaxacan capital. All this, wrapped in the impunity that the crowd gives, in which the one who carries the gasoline or the one who lights the match hides. The one who preys on the bleeding face or those who overshadow the cries of mercy with their insults. Sometimes a gossip, a rumor or the plaintive cries of the one who is going to ring the bells and incite the mob, are enough to take lives.
The worst of it is that these criminal acts remain, for the most part, unpunished. And that is where the ministerial authorities have to correct the course. There is no justification of justice by one’s own hand in the current Penal Code. Yes, there is a defense. Mass murder must be as serious or more serious than other crimes. It is in the hands of the bodies that procure and deliver justice, apply the law. No more no less.
