I don't know how to feel. I cried today, I cried so hard seeing that TV screen, hearing Ariel's speech telling us not to lose hope and not to cry while already making plans on how I can leave this country.
I don't think I've ever said it, but I'm from Costa Rica. I haven't said it, not out of shame, but out of forgetfulness. I love this country, I love my patria, I love this ground I was born in. Yet I don't think I'll live here anymore.
Laura won today. This February first la continuidad won over this country. A government of four years that has three of the highest murder rates per year in all of our history has been reelected for the next four years. I want to cry, I want to scream at every Costarricense that voted against our democracy, against their Garantías individuales. Pueblo soberano doesn't care for us, they want to silence us. Laura and Chávez and Pilar, they're the worst that could've happened to us.
A puppet with a script, a cursed sexual felon and a high class woman who denies the poverty of the country, that's who won today over our nation. Those are who'll have the power of Costa Rica for eight straight years.
I feel helpless, frustrated, I'm angry and sad that this is what's been of our beautiful country. That this is who won, someone who doesn't love Costa Rica. If Chávez' government had the biggest violence rates, and the least amount of illegal trafficking stopped, what makes y'all think that Laura, who was directly trained and coached by him, will be better? Why would you vote away your right for the police to need a warrant to enter your house, to inspect your phone, to leave your house whenever you want no matter the hour? Because all that's what Laura has guaranteed she'll take from probably millions of Costarricenses.
I say Costarricense in Spanish, not because I don't know how to say Costa Rican in English, but because we're a county where everyone knows Spanish and understands what they are. Un Costarricense, member of this patria, of this país that just lost it's precious democracy that it has praised for years.
Sé que este es un blog pequeño, que si hoy usted lo revisara de pies a cabeza no encontraría un solo post en español. Pero eso no significa que yo no ame mi país, tanto como espero que usted lo haga y tanto como rezó con todas mis fuerzas que Laura haga, aunque sea un poquito, por nuestro bien. 873 homicidios este 2025, el tercer año más violento en la historia de nuestro país, y el pueblo confío en que los mismos quiénes estaban a cargo entonces lo arreglen ahora. El hecho de que usted pueda salir en la noche a pasear por ahí con sus amigos, es parte de las garantías individuales que Laura prometió quitar. No es solo para los criminales, porqué si pudieran quitarles las garantías a los criminales y realmente imponer las leyes sobre ellos, serían más que capaces de arrestarlos y ya. Lo que ella va a hacer es callar al pueblo, oprimirlo y hacerlo más pequeño. Me arrepiento de no haber sido más necia en todos los aspectos antes de estás votaciones, de insistir con cada medio al que tuviera alcance en defender nuestra democracia. Mas ahora solo queda arrepentirme, y desear con todas fuerzas lo mejor para nuestro país estos cuatro años que vienen, porque se escogió a la peor candidata posible.
"para no ser derrocado, Saturno devora a sus hijos. Para no perder el poder, el gobierno devora al pueblo costarricense" (Valevanguardista, Instagram)
"To avoid being overthrown, Saturn devoured his children. To avoid losing control, the government devours the Costa Rican people" (Valevanguardista, Instagram)
