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Las democracias en Latinoamérica han sido un ir y venir que, más que mostrarlas frágiles, han demostrado que el continente busca sus propios caminos en lo que respecta a política.
Los recientes procesos (o intentos) de revocatoria en países como Perú, Colombia, Argentina y Bolivia, ponen en evidencia un clima político particular para la región, que resulta inédito en otros ámbitos geográficos, para cuyo análisis habría que remontarse a una historia, un poco más lejana, en la que no todos teníamos derecho al voto. A través del presente artículo, y a partir de la voz de algunos teóricos, se busca poner en evidencia que cuando se trata de hablar de revocatorias el asunto va más allá de que se unan los ciudadanos o se reúnan firmas. ¿Podría ser la revocatoria  un proceso antidemocrático?

Abstract: On October 15th 2012 president Evo Morales  enacted the Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development to Live Well. The aim of the law is to protect natural resources, finding a balance between progress and preservation  and also to enable the development of diverse forms of production in Bolivian […]

  Abstract: La Paz city got that name because it was founded to pacify the region after the civil war between the followers of Francisco Pizarro and those of Diego de Almagro in the 1540’s. The city was then granted a moto that conveyed the intention of uniting those before […]

Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2012 provides valuable information for understanding global political and economic changes, but still has to be complemented with other information in order to understand citizen’s mood around Latin America, a region which is experimenting deep changes. In the case of Chile, which shows a very high BTI index, the party in government and the main opposition party get low approval rates. Some other paradoxes have emerged recently in the region.

On  October, 7th this year Venezuela will hold presidential elections. This is not just one more election. For me, as for a considerable part of the voting population, this election will be decisive in establishing whether we are a democratic and progressive country or one submerged in a personality cult […]