Crime, impunity, and street racing

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.

This is what Orsi leaves us. This is the kind of people he governs with. A bunch of ideologized cronies, who talk about “progress” while enabling chaos, who raise their fists in the name of the people while living off the efforts of others. They are after five years of public salaries, without being accountable to anyone.

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But more and more of us no longer believe them. More of us are fed up with this caste that lies to our faces, with the impunity this system generates, with the contempt for life and freedom. More of us are saying enough.

We want to live in peace, without fear of dying in the street because of a loose idiot and a useless State. We want order, justice, punishment for criminals, respect for life and for freedom. We want to take back Uruguay.

But there is not much time left. The reaction has already begun. The awakening is underway. There is no turning back.