“Today We Are a Society Dead While Alive,” Misiones Educators’ Leader Says

“Today we are a society dead while alive,” Corina Francisca Falcón Arrúa wrote in an open letter criticizing what she called public indifference to the crisis in health, education and security in Misiones.

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Today we are a society dead while alive.

Falcón, president of the Association of Rural Educators of San Juan, has maintained a critical position toward President Santiago Peña’s administration. The organization has also supported doctors’ protests and demands to strengthen the public health system.

In the letter, she said basic supplies and medicines remained unavailable in health services despite monthly deductions from workers intended to support the system. She called a meeting at the Casa del Maestro in San Juan Bautista to plan new protests and mobilization, seeking concrete answers from the national government.

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The indifferent attitudes of society allow the authorities to establish a dictatorship.

Falcón warned that indifference allows authorities to establish a dictatorship and leaves society vulnerable to continued exploitation while “a few dance in abundance at the expense of what we pay.” She asked where Christians, social democrats, patriots and solidarity-minded citizens were.

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A few dance in abundance at the expense of what we pay.

She also pointed to public security concerns, saying people lacked legal security and safety at home and in the streets. As an example of health-system failures, she recalled a patient who had to be transported in the back of a pickup truck. Rural educators in San Juan Bautista have placed black flags as a sign of concern over deficiencies in public health and the IPS.

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No one has legal security. No one is safe in their own home. And worse still in the streets: either they shoot you or they rob you.