Rebelión en Mercedeslandia
Imagínese que la revolución but not born in Puno in the upscale San Isidro district of Lima. Something is happening in Germany. For weeks, images of police beating unarmed schoolgirls with batons, tear gas or run against housewives kept in suspense to the Germans. Not that I ever had public protests here, but they were usually attributed to groups on the extreme left or right "chaotic" street battles being waged in the metropolises of Berlin or Hamburg. Not in Stuttgart, the peaceful capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The Swabians who live here have a reputation of being the most tacanhos between Germanic tribes and yet more ingenious technicians, two features that made the state Baden-Württemberg more prosperous and more conservative of the republic. Here is the cradle of Mercedes cars and Daimler, the Stuttgart region represents the middle class par excellence, Pequenho and medium entrepreneurs and salaried employees well and only marginally affected by the financial crisis as the Chinese continue to buy German cars for dozens. Just last
anho, Chancellor Angela Merkel amid the financial crisis, hailed as a national model for "Swabian housewife" because this, according to Merkel, he knew he can not spend more than you have. Today, the same Swabian housewife trains to protest peaceful and puts a halt to German democracy. The reason may sound banal. The construction of an ultramodern new underground train terminal that should make travel faster Paris to Bratislava and catapult the hard-working but somewhat sleepy town to the pinnacle of urban development in the XXI century. The cost of this project "Stuttgart 21" means an increasingly large amount of euros, until now there is talk of 5 billion, clearing an urban park with trees and the vision of living in anhos in a noisy construction site has on both the minds of the citizens to parents to send their children to protest and not the school.
What keeps politicians perplexed in Berlin and Stuttgart Stuttgart 21 project that has been debated for 15 anhos guild how much parliamentary democracy may have before given the green light. It seems a democracy without effect. When the first bulldozers began to demolish the trees, people no longer remembered the 15 000 summoned the "Planstellungsverfahren, the administrative procedure for appeals citizens (which is as bureaucratic as the word sounds, even in the ears the Germans), was processed. People and Stuttgart came out and still coming out in numbers to protest against the demolition of the park. But only a few tree care protest ? In Stuttgart protests appears the gap between policy and people who have also reached the heart of Europe. Is also expressed discomfort with a modernizing development at great cost, paid for with more debt, whose only benefit is to travel in 30 minutes instead of 60 minutes to the nearby city of Ulm. The promise of faster, higher, more modern seems to be losing its luster.
Interesting as the arguments that are used are similar to those heard in Peru when people do not want a mine or a hydroelectric project, the entrepreneurs come up with the argument of competitiveness and that if the terminal is built, Germany will relegated by competence of European traffic in and out the bottom of the class. Also - this does not say - are themselves the primary beneficiaries of the project as they build the terminal touch multimillionaire. Berlin's political class rants against a people, they say, disoriented, or short-term minority does not accept the procedures provided for parliamentary democracy. A subsequent referendum on the draft is what they seem to be the beginning of the end of parliamentary democracy.
For now the two sides have agreed to a mediator. Heiner Geissler is a retired politician, belonging to the social wing of the Christian Democrats and the last two anhos, its nearly 80 anhos made public their commitment to globalization-critical movement ATTAC. The first achievement is that the two sides have agreed to talk - in public and broadcast on Internet and television.
Let's see if the Swabian housewife able to knock down the terminal century.
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