The new president of the National Assembly, the day he was sworn in, gave a speech that, on paper, was eloquent, promising, and even hopeful. And, as he said, he wrote it himself. But his speech is just the surface of management that, in practice, is more of the same. The usual faces in the work committees say more about what will remain the same than about the promised changes, thanks to bedroom pacts to win the presidency in exchange for the committees. Everything arranged with the exchange, with the "what's up for me." It is not an Assembly that works for its constituents. It is about an Assembly of Phoenicians in which consciences and votes are for sale, and they dance to the sound that they make the coins that fill their pockets. Unfortunately, we will not see changes, rather, we are in the presence of another five-year period lost between greed and corruption. The Legislative Organ has found a new north: Its work committees, especially the Budget one, are bastions of blackmail, where its members, with few exceptions, do not stitch without a thread. That is the sad picture of the promised "change". - LA PRENSA  Jul. 7