Two years ago, Julio Maier passed away, an extraordinary colleague and distinguished jurist, with whom we had recently publicly discussed the possibility and usefulness of law in our region.
Julio was pessimistic and I, for my part, argued that the fight for the right should continue without quarter. Deep down, I think that his was a challenge to impose on us the obligation to shout in the face of legal scandals, because he was an extraordinary human being and his intelligence could not ignore the fact that when the law ends, only violence remains. , which is never good because, even if the people win, it is always the humblest who contribute the greatest number of victims.
For my part, I continue in mine, that is, with the firm intention of fighting for the right to arms and every day with greater momentum, despite the fact that I do not stop observing that the difficulty increases. I do not lose confidence in the right or under the arms. It is necessary to continue with new vigor and to oppose new difficulties and arbitrariness more resistance and push. But the truth is that the playoffs are getting tough.
In recent days we have seen an increase in arbitrariness in the framework of what can already be described as “civic-judicial-media” coups d’état, which play the sad role that the old “civic-military” coups once had. I cannot deny dear Julio a certain reason, because these are carried out by people graduated from our universities, from our law schools, who drag their togas through the mud of the most decadent servility to the financial power of the day.
With reference to the clown who presided over the “Volksgericht” in Hitler’s time, it was said that he hid the executioner’s ax under his toga. Regarding those who are judging Cristina Kirchner today in my country, I cannot say the same, because they do not have the courage to wield it to decapitate. These are good guys, soccer, tennis or paddle teammates of the former president and current head of the opposition, who only limit themselves to hiding under their shirts the sentence already written to ban them from the democratic political struggle.
Let us be clear that those who do this are not the prosecutor Vichinski in the Stalinist purges of 1938 nor the judges who responded to his command, but they are graduates of our universities who hold law degrees. Julio will ask me from his cloud if perhaps we haven’t failed as teachers.
Now I find out that in Ecuador they did not limit themselves to being satisfied with attributing to former President Correa a special “psychic power” previously unreported by any theorist in the world, nor in keeping former Vice President Jorge Glas imprisoned for five years (photo) , in undignified conditions, almost exhibiting the manifest intent to kill him, but, when a judge now allowed his release for humanitarian reasons, that is, due to the impossibility of adequate treatment of his health in prison, not only the executive did not comply with what was ordered, but dismissed and imprisoned the judge, fired the doctor who ruled on his state of health and also the director of the prison, without depriving himself of the imbecile “trolls” who are added to the dissemination of those news. All this is done by a president, that is to say, an executive, who is neither Hitler nor Mussolini nor Stalin, although, due to those strange scribbles of history, he is the worthy successor of someone named Lenin, who before the indifferent gaze of the international organizations, gutted the country’s republican order.
These are the current democracies that the Secretary General of the OAS rushes to defend from his seat in Washington, where he strives to finish burying the little prestige that the institution has left. They are “proto-democratic” regimes that are not even under the control of the old dictators who, at least, could not be denied a high share of sincerity in their criminality, but of “debtors” who incur in astronomical fraudulent administrations of the patrimony of their towns, like Macri in Argentina or Lasso in Ecuador.
The scandal of the “Glas” case reaches the UN, the OAS Commission, the newspapers and the Council of Europe itself (given that Glas has dual nationality). Personally, I experience it almost as my own, not only because I am South American, but also because at a very young age I had the pride of knowing, enjoying and learning from the example of a five-time Ecuadorian president, who lived in exile in my country, in a modest rented apartment. and whose wife died in an accident when she fell from public transport, because she did not have a car.
How far away are those examples today! But the fight continues and will continue. The peoples are not giving up. I know that Julio smiles at me from his cloud.
