And with you the “anarchists” that President Lasso says he is not afraid of: Cuenca Chamber of Commerce, University of Cuenca, Salesian Polytechnic, Catholic University of Cuenca, National Union of Journalists, Azuay College of Civil Engineers, Azuay College of Architects, Azuay Chamber of Small Industries, Chamber of Tourism Azuaya, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Azuaya and at least ten other organizations from Austria.

These entities and their members will be installed today, Thursday, March 2, in the so-called “Great Crusade for the Way of Azuaya” Citizens’ Assembly, convened by the Chambers of Production of Azuaya before the state of isolation, nothing new, that the region is in due to the government neglecting priority road issues. “Anarchists,” I say, because that was Lasso’s response to the announcement of a mobilization called by Conaie for March 8, at the ceremony marking the 194th anniversary of the Battle of Tarqui. And from Tarqui himself, we return that “counter-response” in the form of the “Great Road Crusade”.

In Azuay, there continue to be complaints regarding road problems on national roads during the holidays

Roads of Azuaya

The problem is that the president with these positions only shows that he lives in permanent isolation from the national reality, locked in a strange bubble that immobilizes him while circumstances push him to a cliff from which he does not turn. There are many reasons: the abandonment of the public service, which caused doctors from public hospitals to take to the streets of Quito; to the businessmen of Guayas in despair of insecurity, and now to the organized community of Azuaya, which is also protesting because it has returned it to the isolation and lack of connectivity that affects all productive activities. “Anarchism” with the wind at its back.

The bubble that complacent presidential advisers paint as a success, and don’t let the voices of warning wake up the president and vice president to finally fund hospitals with drugs, repair and maintain the road system, bring excellence back into the spotlight of public service in general…

A president who does not see this “anarchism” is aggravated by the corruption scandals exposed by the alternative press, which he now despises because he no longer likes to be seen at the seams. Made worse by the selectivity with which justice operates as part of an already old covenant.

From Austria, and this is not the first time that this issue has been protested, the lack of road connections takes us so far from the country that it encourages employment and wealth. stability and progress. Economic correspondence with the Main Port is at a standstill. Tourism promotion is limited to the Amazon and the south. They don’t want to look north now. Reason enough to recognize the “anarchism” of social protest as the answer.

Lasso allowed too many fronts to accumulate, and now some of them are the very ones who brought him to power: production chambers, professional associations, industrial associations. The same ones who are sitting in the “Great Crusade for the Azuaya Road” as of today. (OR)