As scandals multiply, the Broad Front is left without an ethical narrative to sustain.
The Broad Front's progressive rhetoric clashes with the scandals, compromises, and patronage of its own administration.
The MPP supports Viera and doubles down on attacks, ignoring the seriousness of the scandal. Photo: Carlos Lebrato / FocoUy
The MPP chooses to protect Viera despite his forced resignation and accuses the opposition of being "stone-faced."
Just when you think you've seen it all in politics, the MPP comes along to outdo you. After Eduardo Viera resigned as president of the National Colonization Institute for blatantly violating the Constitution, far from taking responsibility or reviewing management errors, the Popular Participation Movement chose to shield him politically and attack the opposition with alarming cynicism.
"They have stone faces," the MPP (Ministry of Public Prosecution) declared, attempting to victimize Viera as if his departure had been the result of a political witch hunt and not a blatant, public, and scandalous legal incompatibility. Viera was a settler—a direct beneficiary of public lands—while he presided over the agency charged with managing them. A legal aberration that indisputably violated Article 200 of the Constitution.
But for the MPP, the problem wasn't the improper appointment, the lack of oversight, or the disregard for institutional rules. The problem, they say, was that someone reported him.
It's the old apparatus playbook: deny the obvious, victimize your own people, attack those who expose irregularities, and repeat that "they're all the same" to muddy the waters. A strategy that no longer surprises anyone, but that continues to work within the most fanatical sectors of the Broad Front.
The Viera scandal is not an isolated incident. It's just the latest chapter in a government run plagued by shameful appointments. First, it was Cecilia Cairo, Minister of Housing, who was forced to resign after 20 years of evading taxes on her own property. Then it was Alejandra Koch, who promoted her husband and his driver at the National Port Authority. And now Viera, who headed the Colonization Ministry while continuing to exploit public lands, has fallen.
Three resignations in three months. But the MPP sees no underlying problems, no management errors, no ethical violations. It only sees political enemies to attack to sustain its narrative.
Meanwhile, the rest of Orsi's government is beginning to founder amid a succession of scandals that expose a handpicked distribution of positions, blatant cronyism, and a total disregard for the professionalism promised during the campaign.
The multimillion-dollar land purchases through the Colonization Program, which already commit more than $175 million, continue to move forward while hospitals, schools, and basic services are dying. But not even the obscenity of these figures deters the Broad Front, which seems more concerned with placing friends in office than with managing state resources responsibly.
The MPP, which for years talked about ethics, transparency, and "new politics," is now exposed for what it is: just another cog in the old clientelist apparatus that came to divide the state among its own people.
The political protection of Viera is not an isolated mistake: it is the most brutal demonstration that for the MPP, power is personal property, laws are mere decoration, and the blame always lies with others.
The progressive narrative, repeated so often, that even its own protagonists no longer believe it. Facts destroy it day by day.
