The Politics of the Big Bash
Machine translation from the original, not yet reviewed by the author.
Original in Spanish
They came. They ate. They left. And along the way, they turned Chitré into a garbage dump. Garbage everywhere. Plates on the sidewalks. Cups in the streets. PRD flags in the trees. Speeches in favor of reelection in the park. Pure garbage, and garbage all over.
The Torista1 followers (I am coining the term) are faithful to the tradition of the PRD collective in their political activities. They are very strict about the order of the day: you eat, you drink, you shout slogans and you break ranks to go sleep it off in a nice comfy hammock.
This is the politics of the big bash. The day that politics in Panama is about ideas, morals and honesty, instead of liquor, partying and more partying, on that day, Panama will be a better country. Meanwhile, bread and circuses, for we have the government we deserve.
Notes
- Torista: a follower of “El Toro” (the Bull), the nickname of Ernesto Pérez Balladares, president of Panama from 1994 to 1999. ↩