Monólogo de Alsina: "El síndrome del superviviente"

The host of Más de uno has expressed his solidarity with all the families and friends of those missing in the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela, who are now wondering why they were able to survive. #venezuela #spain https://www.ondacero.es/programas/mas... Let me tell you a story—it's very short, you'll see. It's the story of a book that took fifteen years to find readers. It found them because they changed the title. It was written by a forty-year-old man who had just returned from a near-death experience. In a rented room, with a few dilapidated pieces of furniture, dim light, and windows boarded up for lack of glass, he wrote the book in nine days. José Benigno Freire describes the scene thus in the preface to the latest Spanish edition: "The man formulates and reformulates each sentence until he finds the right word. He paces the room from one end to the other. Each bitter memory stirs his emotions; sometimes, overcome and moved, he sits in a chair and weeps. He cleanses his soul of every last trace of rancor or resentment." The survivor's syndrome was studied by Viktor Frankl, himself a survivor of four concentration camps, and other doctors in the 1950s, based on the experience of prisoners who carried the guilt of having lived when others, just like them, had died. Over time, it was observed that this same burden is suffered by those who have survived a tragedy, a massacre, a shipwreck, an epidemic, an earthquake. “In human beings,” Frankl wrote, “the search for meaning in life is a primary force; they need to find meaning, a reason for everything that happens. Among the events that seem to take away meaning from life is the death of those who were by our side and who did nothing different from us.” Or, posed as a question: “Why did I survive and my brother, my wife, my mother, my son die?” In the days following a tragedy, in the days following an earthquake, to the damage that can be quantified—the dead, the wounded, the missing—is added this other, latent pain, the hidden wound, the invisible victims. Survivor syndrome, the mental, psychological, and emotional injury that doesn't appear in official counts but affects tens of thousands of people. Today, undoubtedly, in Venezuela. Thirty hours after the double earthquake toppled dozens of buildings in La Guaira, Puerto Cabello, and Caracas, the families of twenty thousand people continue searching, continue making phone calls, continue clinging to the hope of hearing their voices confirming they survived. With each passing hour, they know all too well, hope diminishes, their breath falters, and their hearts grow dimmer. The latest official figure from the Venezuelan government raises the death toll from the earthquake to 235. More than two thousand are hospitalized. Two hundred people have been located alive and trapped in collapsed buildings. Aid from neighboring countries—firefighters, rescuers, medicine, food, clothing—continues to arrive. Venezuelans abroad, especially residents of Miami and Madrid, have coordinated efforts to assist their compatriots. Spanish firefighters and military personnel are already en route to Venezuela. Eve of the PSOE Federal Committee meeting The holidays have arrived for the members of parliament. Congress enters summer mode with the Standing Committee on standby and no plenary sessions until September. This is a relief for a government without a parliamentary majority, without a budget, and with no guarantee that it can continue to validate its decrees—a government addicted to decrees and abusing the false pretext of urgency. Before closing the parliamentary session, the government delegate to the Cortes, Francina Armengol, had to swallow the bitter pill of announcing the results of the vote, which confirms that, unlike her, an absolute majority of deputies want Sánchez to allow the chamber to explicitly vote on his continuation as president. There is a parliamentary majority to ask Sánchez to call a vote of confidence. Or, failing that, to dissolve the Cortes and end the legislature that began with the PSOE mutating, converting to the pro-independence faith of amnesty to remain in government despite losing the elections. It's no secret that Sánchez doesn't care that Congress and the Senate are asking him to pass the litmus test of parliamentary confidence.