On Tuesday, neither get married nor embark, and if it is the 13th, pray. Tuesday the 13th is associated in the Latin American world with a day of bad luck.
At EL PILÓN we do not believe in the superstitions of bad days and good days, but embracing a feeling that becomes useful to represent a bitter event, we will do an exercise of what would be, among others, bad news:
Let the worst ‘thieves’ of the Nation continue to arrive in Vallenato prisons. It could be said that although this does not per se generate an explosion of crime, it is desirable that they not be confined here but in other latitudes.
It is hard luck that Alianza went down to B, after having created such good expectations. To ward it off there is the recipe: the social, business and governmental alliance to surround the team.
It is unfortunate that the Valledupar sports venues were left without good competitions this year 2024. It would be a loss of social and economic profit for the city.
It is terrible luck not to achieve the works committed by Petro in the National Development Plan such as the navigation of the Magdalena River, the double carriageways from Valledupar to San Roque, in the south, and from Valledupar to Maicao in the north.
If the recovery of the Cesar River is not achieved, in the government that prides itself on being the most environmentalist, building the Valledupar wastewater treatment plant, WWTP; and if the rehabilitation of the Ciénaga de Zapatosa is not achieved.
It is bad news, and a kind of loser that El Niño was rigged and was left sucking the dry energy of Mother Earth, so that all mitigation efforts were useless.
It is bad news that the Hacaritama airport in Aguachica became another white elephant, not lifted by any breath of air.
It is bad news that the intervened Emdupar does not find the million-dollar financing necessary to replace the networks, improve the optimization of the water treatment plant and that the poor neighborhoods of the city continue, without storage in the houses, bearing the brunt of the shortage.
It is a sign of exhausting luck that the people of Caesarea and the Guajiros continue to think more about fights between national politicians and not about the problem of the block, neighborhood or town in which they live.
It is unfortunate that indigenous children under 5 years of age in upper Guajira, despite the vaunted announcements of state aid, continue to die and that the truth is discovered: that in lower Guajira and Cesar the death rates of minors are the highest, after those of the Wayú desert.
It is bad luck that in Venezuela the economy and democracy can never be recovered. Not even border trade.
It is bad luck that once again the indicators of ‘monetary poverty’ continue to improve in the country, except in Cesar and La Guajira.
It is bad luck that after betting on copper as a strategic material for the components of renewable energy generation, the environmental restrictions of the same government prevent its mining extraction. And it is also horrible luck that we do not find a replacement for mining income in this region.