Daily satire: the citizen facing political crisis and broken promises

Published on May 16, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

Esteban's cartoon harshly portrays an ordinary citizen trapped between catastrophic headlines and self-absorbed politicians. Inflation devours wages, insecurity lurks around every corner, and bureaucracy paralyzes any procedure. Meanwhile, rulers get tangled in internal disputes, oblivious to the daily drama of those waiting for solutions that never come.

Black and white cartoon: a citizen with a weary expression, surrounded by newspapers with crisis headlines, while politicians argue with their backs turned to him.

Automation to survive administrative chaos 🤖

Faced with the unfulfilled promise of an efficient state, open-source platforms like Odoo or Python modules for data analysis allow small businesses and freelancers to reduce bureaucratic burdens. Scraping tools with BeautifulSoup and Selenium make it easier to track procedures on official portals, while Bash scripts automate deadline reminders. It's not a magic solution, but at least you dodge a couple of trips to the ministry.

The politician promises, the citizen suffers (and codes) 😅

While deputies debate whether the coffee in the session room should be from a machine or a drip brewer, you calculate how to adjust your budget to make ends meet. The irony is that, faced with the void of official responses, you learn to code your own escape from the bureaucratic maze. Perhaps the next economic plan will come in a pull request. But don't hold your breath: Congress's servers are usually down.