Last Sunday, May 25, in Buceo, a double homicide shook the country. A 66-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman were run over and killed by a brainless criminal who, fully aware, was street racing at full speed. He knew what he was doing. He knew the risk. Still, he did it. Therefore, it was not an accident: it was murder.
While they were crossing Bulevar Batlle y Ordóñez and Neyra, their lives were destroyed in seconds by an irresponsible driver. Meanwhile, an absent State, complicit by omission, has for years failed to rise to the challenge of confronting this epidemic of preventable deaths. Street racing is not new. It is the loudest symptom of the authorities' failure.
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If there is a face to that failure, it is Orsi's protégé, Marcelo Metediera. When Orsi dedicated himself to the electoral campaign, Metediera took over as mayor of Canelones. Today he is Director General of Traffic and Transportation. His training for the position? None. His experience? He only accumulates failures. A simple review of the news is enough to see his record, where he appears in every one of them.
In that same search, we find other "gems" from Metediera: such as when he was booed in Canelones for the disaster in security, or when he defended, together with Orsi, a “comrade” official who turned out to be involved in drug trafficking. As a good communist, he also did not fail to show his explicit support for Maduro in Venezuela's bloody dictatorship.
