They deceived us like the Chinese. For the umpteenth time. This sounds like a lie. More than seven years in the chair. Without being able to blame Rajoy -who also did many other things without doing anything-. Fourteen leave. “Proud to govern … Spain”, Sanchez dixit. A tangle of environmental impact statements to conclude that Espiel to AlbendínMore or less, the entire landscape remains just as sensitive to the presence of a highway as it was seven, fourteen, and twenty-five years ago. Because the flora and fauna (the real one) have not changed to our knowledge in these regions, but it’s the perfect excuse when you don’t want to do any work. When put on the table, the specific weight of a province like Córdoba in the national leadership finds its true character: without marketing or slogans to hide it. Without blatant representatives of popular sovereignty.
The only thing that changes is the number of deaths this damn road continues to claim each year. A silent statistic, elusive in speeches and postures. The wreaths of memories and dry leaves that continue to call us back to the placid vastness of the countryside, when we look at the horizon from the wheel. The blessed N-432 and its long list of deaths that do not count for a ministry whose leadership seems to have been interested in other types of environments in those years, and for a state which denigrates the ultimate meaning of public service to its citizens.
In the last five years we have recorded twenty-one deaths, more than one hundred and twenty road accidents and more than one hundred and seventy injuries on the two hundred kilometers that run along the spine of Córdoba since Source of Obejuna towards Baena to everyone’s shame. When you take photos of driving awareness campaigns again, remember these numbers and apply the morals. Please don’t make a fool of yourself again.
Sanchismo now proclaims to us that it cannot transform the N-432 that passes through Córdoba into a highway because its environmental aspect is so complex – such as it was the Amazon or Doñana – that it prevents it, but it spares our lives with some specific actions to repair two bends and some guardrails. Of course, new kilometers of highway will be paved through Badajoz and Granada. And the rest will be entrusted to San Cristóbal and Santa Rita so that there are budgets and despite this, there is the will and decency to duplicate the highway that we have. There is no longer any doubt: let’s forget the new routes.
There is so much hermit pain on these shoulders and so much painful loneliness in these turns that honor obliges us to travel the blessed road in a perfect state of silence and respect for those who no longer take it and who one day thought, like us, that it was going to be fixed.
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