“According to a recent poll, a full 50% of Peruvians are displeased with democracy.  And, whether it is because they are conformists or because they’ve lost all hope, 56% of Peruvians have no interest in politics.’

According to Mexico’s Secretary of Taxation and Public Credit, Luis Videgaray Caso, his country has not managed the transition from an economic model based on manufacturing to one based on the creation of industrial value.

Inequality between people, countries, and cultures is normal, as are distinctions within a society.

“Great Britain was the birthplace of a multitude of great thinkers on the subject of poverty and inequality. Those who stand out include Richard Tawney, economic historian and incisive social critic; Thomas H. Marshall, historian and sociologist, famous for his concept of citizenship; Richard M. Titmuss, autodidact and one of the founders of the discipline

“As many times as one casts stones at a police force that is the legacy of dictatorship, one could also speak of ‘accursed Justice.’ While the Supreme Court takes pains to please the Macri-radicalism espoused by the new courtesans who will be the government….and as Chaco is being brutally attacked… this column returns to take

“There is no doubt that we live in a fractured and divided country. Every day the contrast between those who directly or indirectly enjoy the benefits of belonging to a dominant class and the great majority who fight a daily struggle just to survive…becomes more and more obvious.”

“Anecdotes, narratives modeled to the measure of oblivion; confused memories for the confusion of history, which is oblivion; altering the scene of the crime according to the needs of the criminal….thirty years later, the bonfire of pardon still burns bright…an entire nation, a society, watches as memory is consumed by the flames….a society, its history.”

“The word history refers to an investigation of what has taken place. For that reason, history, said the ancients, is life’s teacher….it teaches those who write it and those who read it.”

One of the thousands of problems afflicting Mexico is the reduction of democracy to little more than a representative process fueled by votes. With few exceptions, neither the right nor the left can conceive of it in any other way.

“The reelection of political representatives…in theory seems like a good idea because…their experience with public affairs [makes them qualified] to seek the public good in the face of particular interests or factious powers, whether they be economic, military, spiritual, or now criminal.”