Emphasizing and guaranteeing gender rights does not mean establishing any privilege. Without diminishing anyone, the importance of women in multiple spaces, when they are not denied access to opportunities or options without being conditioned by any sponsorship, shows that their quality can reach excellence.

It is – and will be – to use women, invoking their rights, or portraying them as victims, for profit, or – in the case of women – allowing them to be used or allowing this to happen.

My admiration for the everyday woman, sometimes mother and father, her dedication and love, who takes on multiple burdens.

Also for those who experience the expression “we” at home and radiate it, always companions as a condition of life. It is that there is no real union of the couple if this does not happen.

It is a tribute to the performance of women who do not allow themselves to be weighed down – the recent case of prosecutor Diana Salazar – and investigators who act without fear – Mónica Almeida, for example.

And let’s move on to sports. Courtesy of Rosa Amelia Alvarado, director of the magazine Hogar, whose content favors Ecuadorian women, the award for the best athlete is named after Mercedes Icaza de Roldós every year, in memory of her dedication to the sport, of which she was the figure in basketball, for which I participate in his team . These days we are reliving the success of Angie Palacios Dajomes (22) in weightlifting, who on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, with the addition of gold medals, at the competition in Havana, set a new world record in the jerk of 71 kg by lifting 121 kg, surpassing Chinese medalist Liao Guifang, who lifted 120 kg at the Asian tournament in May 2023. And it was not a “coincidence” – an unexpected coincidence – but the result of his training and family and sports environment. At the 2020 Tokyo Games, Angie placed sixth and earned her Olympic diploma; and, between 2021 and 2022, more medals at the Bolivarian Games, the Pan American Games, the South American Games in Asunción and the World Weightlifting Championships in Bogotá, to which he adds his triumphs in Havana. His older sister, Neisi Dajomes, 23, won an Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in Tokyo, adding to dozens of medals in multiple tournaments. On the podium in Tokyo, she dedicated the medal to the memory of her mother and brother Javier, who cheered her on in training. Born in Shell, Canton of Mera, Province of Pastaza, they went as girls to the Manuel Galecio Home, managed by the Social Welfare Committee of Guayaquil in Alausí, Province of Chimborazo. Two younger brothers, Germán, 18, and Jéssica, 15, are also medalists. After their mother died, their father continued to support them.

Neisi and Tamara Salazar collect gold and silver medals at the same competitions in Havana in 2023.

I can name other winners of the sports in which they compete. It is impressive to see them vibrating, covered by the tricolor and receiving awards to the chords of the national anthem. (OR)