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By Guillermo Alvarado

In the United States, the country that proclaims itself as the perfect democracy and takes the right to qualify the rest of the world according to its whim, things tend to happen that range from the curious to the ridiculous and one of the best known exemplars in this regard is former President Donald Trump.

It must be said at the outset that this comment does not refer to the electoral procedure itself, which is complex, contradictory at times, a bit folkloric and difficult to understand, but it is legal in that country and therefore must be respected without question.

There are things, however, that are beyond the system and one of them is the inordinate lust for power and the distorted vision of reality, local and international, shown by the former guest of the White House and how the justice apparatus reacts to this case.

As it is known, this 2024 is an election year in the northern power and the primaries in the two governing parties of local politics, the Democratic Party, currently in power, and the Republican Party, which dreams of returning soon to lead that country, preferably by the hand of the irascible tycoon Trump, are just a step away.

It so happens, however, that two states, Maine and Colorado, decided that this gentleman has no right to participate in the event because he is responsible for intervening in an insurrection on January 6, 2021, remember, when a mob attacked the Capitol in Washington?

It turns out that there is an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, number 14, which prohibits those who have committed an offense of this nature from running to lead the country.

The rule was actually approved in 1868, a few years after the end of the Civil War, because the victors in the North feared that their rivals in the South would use the elections to seize the power they did not achieve in combat.

Since such an amendment was never repealed, it can be applied to Trump, as long as the Supreme Court recognizes that it was he specifically who called for the storming of the capitol, a crime for which no court has so far convicted him.

In the meantime, the politician continues campaigning, raising huge amounts of money and rising in the polls of voting intentions, while toughening his discourse and calling Joseph Biden a "radical leftist", which, if the situation were not so complex, could even be considered a good joke.

So, my friends, we are entering a year that will give us a lot to talk about and, even more, to think about.