La Barca (2009)

Talking about Judges.

In summer of 2009, Sonia de Sotomayor, after days of extensive and extenuated hearings that I religiously followed in New York, was confirmed by the U.S Senate as the 111 th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Sotomayor was the first Hispanic and third female justice to serve on the Supreme Court. I was so impressed by her that I became her fan.

I painted her as a heroine in this painting along with Zapatero, governing Spain badly at that time , and the eternal Mrs. Merkel.

I wonder what she would have said about the sentence of the Prestige.

Here is my humble opinion.

 

€ 800 million worth of negligence absolved, and the government again goes on happily and relieved – until the next time. Mr. Arias Cañete talks about lessons learned, but neither will there be increased ship inspections nor will marine security be improved.

 

Justice has again favored the incompetent. What worse, Spain is full of them and they are governing the country. In this case without environmental conscience and this will happen again whilst the culprits aren’t paying for damages.

 

 

 

Can negligence be punished through criminal proceedings? Why not?