The restoration of the US visa to the PLD presidential candidate, Gonzalo Castillo, days before the judge in his case issued a “no merit” to the accusations against him, has demonstrated the political value of that practice.
In this way, the State Department, using its sovereign right, has created an instrument that it uses at its convenience according to its interests, whose effects transcend the granting, loss, cancellation or restitution of the permit, to become a political artifact.
That the restoration of Castillo’s visa has been received by the citizens as a kind of sanctification, approval or letter of no objection to his aspirations, also implies the opposite: the cancellation of the United States visa for a presidential candidate in the middle of the electoral campaign would, for example, be a message of demonization, objection and a “bad view” towards that candidate. (Poor country, which we are no longer).
This practice of the United States government also connects with the use of so-called lawfare against political adversaries. Lawfare, according to experts, consists, among other things, of the “strategic use of judicial, fiscal or administrative procedures to weaken, discredit or neutralize a political adversary,” and is accompanied by leaks to the press (especially those with greater affinity with the government in power) and other practices. They warned the purple ones: “where they give them, they take them.” The lawfare practices set up by the efficient management team of Jean Alain Rodríguez are of anthology and repugnance.
Lawfare works! Thanks to him, this country has been reading judicial condemnations in the press for three years—headlines that were actually just accusations—which affected the popularity of the PLD and, as a logical effect, triggered the growth of the People’s Force until it reached a technical tie match by match. Although marked by betrayals and grudges, the PLD remains one. This time the strategy has benefited the PLD, which needed it. Now it is the FP that must tread carefully, strain its coffee clearly.
The visa and lawfare as political instruments has served the PRM to do with the two PLD what they did with that PRD that no longer exists. “Occupy your seat. The event is going to begin. The second of the ninth begins.”
