New year, hopes and wishes to fulfill. Dreams that come and go. Somehow, the coming of the new year produces an effect of joy and positivism on us. One thinks that good things will happen and, why not, one also ignores the possible problems of the future.
We enter the year 2024 with two wars: in Ukraine and in Gaza. Young people kill young people and, on many occasions, civilians pay a high price; The hospitals are filled with injured people. Properties are lost and we terribly affect the world by neglecting ecology with the intensity that becomes urgent.
In 2024 there will be two elections that strongly concern us: that of Mexico, where two women face each other, something unthinkable in the past. Both intelligent, both engineers working in different fields.
Claudia represents an attempt to be more fair to the less privileged classes; However, good intentions have become entangled with a dramatic growth of the black parts of society, such as corruption, drug trafficking and violence. Claudia is an intelligent scientist who knows and understands numbers and statistics (whenever they are not falsified).
Xóchitl is an engineer who knows the battles of being a businesswoman, she comes from poverty, and presents a breath of fresh air, since her work in the government has been frankly fruitful. Xóchitl is surrounded by the old parties with the small ambitions of their leaders, who will seek her personal and partisan interests before those of the country.
Difficult choice, who are we more afraid of, the unleashed violence and populist improvisations, or the former corrupt and bullies? Both ladies will try to control the most negative parts of their groups, but will they be able to do so?
In the United States, Trump and Biden face each other, both senile and tired. A renewal of ideas and procedures is urgently needed to transform and maintain the noble leadership that the United States has exercised before the world, projecting democracy and respect for human rights and the legality of its legal systems.
Trump, impulsive, aggressive and, in some ways, his followers insist that he had certain achievements, especially in the economic and tax fields. However, he creates a feeling of uncertainty, since his actions and decisions are unpredictable.
Biden gives us certainty of what he is, since he has vigorously faced the challenges imposed by the attempt to unseat North America as the driving force of the world. And he has known how to confront Putin in his invasion of Ukraine and support Israel but insisting on restraint.
China, Russia and Iran show a desire to shake off the grip of the United States and economic clashes and political differences mark the beginning of the year.
Argentina is going through a very difficult time, a change of right-wing government that aspires to straighten out the poorly achieved efforts of a corrupt and advantageous left that has practically bankrupted the country. However, the medicine is very bitter: a harsh devaluation and a fierce control of public spending.
2024: year of hope, dreams, possibilities and potentials, or a year of disruption and crisis. As the Italian song says “what will be, will be” (“Qué será, será”) and us, human beings, like leaves in the wind, will move to the rhythm that this uncertain and always surprising world plays for us.
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