The Sad
Experience of Mayor Javier Delgado
The people of San Buenaventura, a locality in Northern
Bolivia, recently punished their mayor by putting him in stocks (medieval
restraining device) for an hour. It is alleged that the town’s people wanted Mayor
Javier Delgado, know that they weren’t satisfied with his services on their
behalf. The disgraced mayor is pictured sitting on the ground with one leg
trapped in stocks and the angry community people surrounding him. These photos when viral on the South-American
social media shortly after they were taken.
It so happened that sometime last month, Mayor Javier Delgado
was to inaugurate a bridge in his community built with municipal funds. When he
arrived at the ceremony, he was taken aback to realize that the crowd present
wasn’t there to salute his hard work but to punish him. As he approached, the
crowd immediately grabbed and put him in stocks. “They didn’t even give me the
opportunity to find out why they were submitting me to this punishment, but I
did not put up resistance knowing that there was a risk of things escalating even
further…” reported Delgado to La Razon. “Later, they gave me the opportunity to explain and
then they apologized to me, as they saw that they had been manipulated and
misinformed by these people” concluded the mayor. Surely, by “these people”,
Delgado meant his political adversaries and local entrepreneurs who are busy
undermining the work he has done and has been doing for his community for over
two years.
Daniel Salvador, a native of San Buenaventura, told Radio Fides that mayor Delgado had been punished because
he hadn’t respected his commitments to the local community since has only spent
time lying to and exploiting their ignorance. Such behavior goes against the
basic principles of the people of San
Buenaventura as stated in “ama
qhuilla, ama llulla, ama suwa” (do not be lazy, do not be a liar, do not be a
thief. Of course going against these meant Delgado had to be punished according
to the people.
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