2023-05-31 08:03:59
In the history of humanity and therefore from our need to group together to defend ourselves and survive in a competitive environment, those who exercised power did so brutally and without limits. Centuries passed before humanity, motivated by the logical search for reason, made efforts to achieve something that initially only existed in theory: the rationalization of power.
The power entrusted to a group or a person to govern and protect us, if it stops being rational, becomes an addictive drug for those who carry it and a burden for those who support it. Just as it is natural to have and enjoy rights without any law telling us so, human beings will also abuse power whenever they can and they let it.
Accepting our charm due to the abuse of power, over the years and after the frustrations of millions of people victims of unlimited power, little by little, rules were established to limit it, which at first by nature was a contradiction. because those who exercised the authority dictated the laws without parameters to respect.
The most outstanding modern democracies such as the English, the French and the United States have shown the West the way to limit power and ensure our rights. The English, first with the creation of Parliament and the rules to limit the King himself, and then the United States and France with their respective revolutions, established universal and valid guidelines, one of which is that there is a law called the Constitution, created by a power above that exercised by the usual governments and with various functions. The first is to limit the exercise of public authority and second, to ensure our rights and for this the free press plays a key role so that the inhabitants know what is happening and protect ourselves.
The majority of Central America suffers a setback in respect, on the part of the public power, for the most elementary limits of power. Governments talk about freedom, but they get furious when that right is exercised in a way that disturbs their interests and they pursue freedom of expression and of the press.
In the Spanish newspaper The country, just last Sunday, the testimonies of an anonymous Nicaraguan journalist appeared, who recounts his ordeal for reporting and for this reason silences his name; Julia Gavarrete from El Salvador tells how journalism is practiced (and lived) under constant persecution, the Salvadoran case being complex because a large part of the population approves of Bukel’s repressive measures, and finally Juan Luis Font who was forced to leave Guatemala for the montages of cases that are now being carried out by the Public Ministry and the Judiciary to silence him and please the groups in power.
The testimony of Juan Luis Font makes us a call to anyone who loves freedom and is a message for all those young people who yearn for a better future as a result of honest study and work. The voice of Font, the prison of Laparra and Zamora, due to court decisions with extemporaneous periods, as well as the exile and “civil death” of various justice operators, strongly warns us how we should learn from history. Less than a month to “choose” among those who left us, let’s reason who will make sure to express ourselves, protest, dissent and live in freedom.
We must not settle for facade democracies and especially when the press is persecuted. When that happens, in any part of the world, power will be exercised without limits because the first limit to stop the abuse is an aware and conscious society.
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