PORTUGAL IS BURNING!!
Sertá, Castelo Branco, Vila Velha de Rodão,
Nisa, Gavião,
Proença Nova, Mação, Pedrógão Grande,
Figueiró dos Vinhos,
Castanheira de Pêra, Pampilhosa de Serra,
Penela, Gois, Setubal, Coimbra,
etc, etc, etc ad naseum.
António Costa is "lost in battle".
No governance, no responsibilities,
no resignations,
no communications that function,
firemen are exhausted and angry,
because local fire chiefs are not authorized any more
to control the situation on the ground.
They have to wait for instructions from the central control
of the National Authority of Civil Protection,
situated in Carnaxide, Lisbon.
Costa imposed a silence decree against all fire chiefs,
prohibiting them to comment any situation of danger
and unconctrolled fires,
to anyone, much less to journalists.
Journalists are given an official briefing twice a day,
in Carnaxide,
FAR FROM THE FIRES
AND THE REALITY OF THE TRAGEDY!!
In Mação, the major, Vasco Estrela,
has claimed
that more than 20 thousand hectares of forest,
out of a total of 40 thousand hectares,
had been destroyed by the raging fire,
since last Sunday.
The small village of São José das Matas, near Mação,
are surrounded by a horrific fire, from three sides.
No one knows if the village have been evacuated or not,
the firemen are angry, disheartened, and exhausted.
Costa has announced that he will go
to the Central Command of the National Authority
of Civil Protection in Carnaxide, at 17.30 this afternoon.
The President of the Republic has gone to Mação already last night,
to find out in loco, what the situation is.
Costa and his government, don't care a blue s**t about the population,
about the suffering of the portuguese people in the villages,
in the cities, or anywhere else.
He pays for polls, to see how these fires have influenced his popularity.
The Portuguese are left to their own resources,
their own strength to protect their properties and lives.
There is NO STATE in Portugal, that protects its civil society,
its rural population, private property or livestock.
Everyone on its own, has to fight the primal fight for survival.
WHERE IS THE GOVERNMENT??
SOMEWHERE ON THE BEAUTIFUL BEACHES OF THE COUNTRY
or galavanting in the European capitals or on exotic beaches further apart???
SWIMMING IN THE WARM WATERS OF THE ALGARVE SPAIN
OR THE GREEK ISLANDS; ON HOLIDAY??
The President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has to take matters into his own hands,
to try to ease the suffering of the populations and the rural authorities.
Where is the minister of Internal Affairs?
On holiday with her German boyfriend??
She should be in command of the operational logistics on the ground,
but then, I doubt if she has the faintest idea of what the hell is going on.
The portuguese people are going through hell,
with the gross governmental neglect!!
There is no coordination, no communication,
complete chaos reigns.
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