Again. Another video that leaves no room for doubt. Traffic inspectors from the City of Canelones, the same people who play hard with their cell phones in their hands and a ticket book ready, were filmed preventing an ordinary man from using his own car. He wasn't a criminal. He wasn't a drunk. He was a worker who, like thousands, tries to earn an honest living with his vehicle. And there they were: the “public officials” turned into selective executioners, cutting their way as if the car were owned by the commune
.The video, which has already gone viral across the country, is irrefutable proof of what many of us have been denouncing for years: the Canelones Intendency acts as a true selective extortion apparatus. While he lets entire schools of motorcycles invade roads and avenues without helmets, making bites, zigzagging between cars and putting everyone's lives at risk, his inspectors jump like wolves on anyone who tries to work with Uber or any other application. Why? Because airport taxis rule. Because the lobby is stronger than the law. Because in Canelones the Intendency does not defend the people: it defends the privileges of a few
.It's a national disgrace. The same administration that charges taxpayers very high taxes, which fills its mouth talking about “road safety”, is the first to look the other way when it comes to motorcycles. How many mass operations against motorcycle gangs without patents, without lights, without respect for anyone? Zero. How many rigorous controls are there against those who work decently with their own car? Hundreds. The hypocrisy is so blatant that it's disgusting
.These inspectors are not public servants. They are the soldiers of a rotten system that prefers to drown the independent worker rather than touch the interests of the taxi drivers at Carrasco Airport. “Lobbies rule this country,” the town rightly says. And the Canelones Intendency is the best test. Instead of modernizing transport, instead of allowing people to earn their bread without asking the caciques on duty for permission, they choose the easy path: to persecute the
