Legacies

At an event recently organized by all the de-constituents of 1972, to make known their support for the constitutional deforms and for His Royal Highness, our/your Monarch quoth:

There is interest on the part of some groups and persons in casting doubt on the torrijismo of our government [...]

I do not doubt it. His Royal Highness has devoted himself during these four years to doing exactly the same as yon other gentleman did decades ago: plunging the country into debt by dint of million-dollar loans to build highways. He has not been concerned in the least with reducing the foreign debt, quite the contrary. So whoever says he is not a good pupil is lying shamelessly. His Holiness spake on and quoth:

[...] it has been pointed out to us that we have abandoned Omar’s line and set aside his legacy. That is an accusation that offends me, since it is precisely because of Omar Torrijos that we are here [...]

I agree. I, in Your Worship’s place, would also be mortally offended in my pride (and mind you, my pride is not even a shadow of the arrogance of Your Majesty). And I would reproach those dolts:

How can you even insinuate, insurrectionary lackeys, that I have abandoned Carmelo’s line by so much as a millimeter? Do you not see that I have squandered as much money as I can on helicopter trips, just as the General did? Do you not see that I have doubled the foreign debt in a few years, just as he did? Gentlemen, whoever says I am not Carmelo’s pupil does not know what Carmelo is.

And as Saint Augustine would say:

In taure interioris habitat carmelitas.

He is right when he says that he is where he is precisely because of the General. If it were not for Carmelo, and for Carmelo’s millions of balbollars, the very ones the disinherited heirs of the Generalissimo now find missing, His Royal Highness would not be resting his white pulp on that heronaceous throne. Because where, on a crappy Minister’s salary, is anyone going to pull a million dollars out of his pocket for an election campaign? Where, huh? Unless, of course, that someone is in the bridge business. The business of bridges that were never built. But whose monies never reappeared. And even more so if we add both fortunes of balbollars together. But not satisfied with this, His Greatness spake more, and quoth:

[...] it is because of him that we are going to fulfill his main objective, to receive the Canal on December 31, 1999.

I have no evidence that this was the master’s main objective, but it is quite clear that it is the pupil’s. The well-being of Panamanians is secondary. Education is secondary. Health is secondary. Receiving the Canal (and milking it like a dairy cow), that is the main objective, the first purpose of the toroid. For no other reason than pure taurine vanity: he dreams of appearing in the Social Studies books and in the History books...