It seems that the whole world is at war, and in fact it is. Because no war is isolated. All of them, even the smallest ones, have to deal with everyone. All of them include us and we cannot deny, avoid or ignore them, everyone must face them from their own space, their responsibility, their vision and their commitment. Whatever they do, it will always be insufficient, but it will carry within it the germ of a proposal and a new life, if we try to be honest. Even if we can only speak, words produce life or can cause war and death. That’s why you have to be so careful with them, which is not the same as being ambiguous.

One should not get used to the death and destruction that wars produce.

the least bad

The supreme good is peace, which is not the denial of conflict, is not an ideology, it is and should be a reality. It should be a constant action. In the Israel-Hamas war (which is not the same as the Palestinian people), recognizing the suffering of a people does not give citizenship to terrorist groups, that is, to those who produce terror, to commit the greatest atrocities in the name of justice. when they do that. What they do is massacre, revenge, shame. The reaction that condemns the civilians of Gaza, thousands of children, to hunger, desolation and terror cannot be justified either. An eye for an eye and all will be blind. Saramago already said, we are the blind who see but do not look.

The war in our country is not only ours, it is regional and global, because the drug trade is a global force. Criminal groups, not only from the regions most ravaged by fear (Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, prisons), deal with the whole country, neighboring countries, the region and the world.

When this article is published, we will be in the last hours of comments before the election of who will hold the executive power, in the vicissitudes of the election and the last rallies, interviews, in noise and shock.

Vote without deception

However, both voters and potential elected officials should find space for silence and ask themselves in which direction we would lead the country if it depended on each of us. To whom we entrust the dearest things we have, who will be affected by the decision of the majority.

Family, work, health, distractions, culture, art, will be influenced by the political decisions made by him or her chosen one. The required security will depend on the team that will be in charge of the measures to achieve it.

Sunday should not be a day of great celebrations. but big obligations. The only choice is the result of the ungovernability of the country, the lack of appropriate decisions, made on time, personal or group agendas on the common good, the inability to seek agreement and forge in the middle. particular interests and agendas and the narco-economy that drives huge capital and corrupts and kills.

That reality has worsened. Whoever is chosen will have the difficult task of improving themselves by choosing the team well to lead, complementing their shortcomings with abilities that add up. The future is not at stake, the present is at stake. (OR)