The Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, seems to be an island of good sense in that immense sea of misrule and mistakes that the country feels has been put to sail. In a gesture, very unlike politicians who are experts in lying, changing and sucking cock, the Ministry of Finance publicly said that the price of the ACPM will not go up until after the elections.
Meanwhile, gasoline is precipitously and harmfully approaching 16,000 pesos a gallon. The ACPM has not risen since when Petro was president because it would generate such a blow to inflation that there are those who say it could make the cake burst. And those who affirm such a thing are not thinking irrationally.
ACPM, or diesel, is the fuel used by trucks to transport all the country’s cargo and by tractors that work agricultural and livestock land on most flat lands, and especially by urban and inter-municipal buses.
Raising the price before the elections is turning into a tsunami the anti-petrism that is beginning to take shape to face the October elections. That is well known in the disorderly and unprofile government that governs us, but nobody says it. Only Bonilla, with the frankness of an economics professor, dared to say it and has unleashed the first hurricane of the season.
It may have been a political error that will stoke the campaign for the elections of mayors, governors, councilors and deputies. But it serves to scan, without having to go to an MRI, the true muscles of this government and especially the flaccidity that has it in the eggplants it has gotten into.
Obviously the day after the elections when the ACPM rises, inflation will skyrocket, reversing to the limit that we have reached these days and will ignite the wick of the explosion that by that time will have the country dammed, upset, win or lose Petro and his the elections.