Canelones inspectors: gangsters in uniforms who protect taxis and suffocate workers

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

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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

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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

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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

one who has no godparents.

The national government can talk all it wants about freedom of work, but in Canelones the mayor does what it wants. This video shows a humiliated man, surrounded by uniforms that prevent him from earning a living. And the mayor? And the traffic directors? Absolute silence. As always. Because when it comes to defending ordinary workers, the commune is conspicuously absent. But when it comes to collecting fines and protecting monopolies disguised as “order”, they do appear there with all

the arrogance in the world.

This is not traffic control. It is pure and hard persecution. It is a direct attack on those who are trying to get ahead in a country where formal employment is getting less and less. Not only does the City of Canelones do nothing with motorcycles that turn the streets into a dangerous circus; it does so deliberately so as not to disturb certain sectors. And instead, he is vicious with Uber, with delivery, with which he uses his car so as not to depend on a miserable salary

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It's time to say things as they are: the City of Canelones has become an obstacle to the freedom to work. Its inspectors act like legal mobsters, protected by an intendant who looks the other way while the town tires of being robbed with unfair and selective fines

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The video doesn't lie. The repudiation is massive and justified. These “bastards and gangster inspectors” —deserve all the contempt of society. And the Intendency that protects them, too. Because as long as they continue to protect lobbies and suffocate workers, they don't deserve a single weight more from canary taxes. Enough now.