The disconnection that lights up the roads
Segob said there were no reasons for a national strike. The transporters and farmers unions, which plan to paralyze at least 20 states this Monday, responded with one word: simulation.
Jeannet Chumacero, from ANTAC, was direct. The dialogue tables with the federal government since last year have been pure theater. “It remains firm,” he said of the mobilization.
“Denying the existence of reasons is a clear example of disconnection, insensitivity and lack of knowledge of reality (…). That there are no reasons? So how do they explain the murders, the assaults, the disappearances of transporters on the roads, every day?”
That’s the crux. While the Secretariat issues a neat statement talking about “permanent dialogue”, on the pavement the reality is different: robberies, million-dollar losses and, most seriously, lives at risk.Chumacero, also on behalf of the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside, launched a harsher accusation: the government not only minimizes, it denies the problem. And by denying it, he offends thousands of victims.
“They have to assume their responsibility. We demonstrate because we are tired of unfulfilled promises, of empty speeches.”
The frustration is palpable. It’s not just because of bad treatment or low rates. It’s for basic security. It is to guarantee that going to work is not a sentence.
Given this, the official position seems to float on another planet. Segob repeats as a mantra that “it has always been open to dialogue” and that it will be “attending” the demonstrations.
But the unions no longer buy the speech. They held the federal government responsible “for any consequences” for not addressing their underlying demands. It’s an ultimatum.
When official words collide so brutally with daily experience on the roads, what remains is not dialogue. It is an abyss. And on the other side, there are only stopped trucks and exhausted patience.
