The name “Pedro” has been revealing of hope, leadership and kindness. “Pedro I el Grande”, Tsar of Russia, with indelible traces of advance in his country, “Don Pedro I”, “The first ruler” of the Empire of Brazil and San Pedro, the rock on which God built the temple to soul driving. But not as it seems in the case of “Pedro”, the President of Peru, who governs with his head protected by a hat, but one of the greats”, as if seeking the benefits of “the cabal”, in order to do it well, that they do not dismiss him or that they do so after having benefited from perquisites from the exercise of the government. “The President of the hat” has half a dozen investigations for the management of the public treasury.
The phenomenon of South and Central America has been characterized in recent decades by governments elected under the assumption that the dispossessed classes have not been taken into account. The continent today has placed qualified rulers, in quotes, as leftist, in substitution of those presumably from the right. The media draws the geography in red, the one that has distinguished the so-called communist countries since the Russian Revolution. The no, very few, without coloration.
The philosophers Zygmunt Bauman and Carlo Bordoni rightly speak of a “State of Crisis”, emphasizing that “the idea of progress is linked to the dominant ideologies at a given moment and whose utopian goal is that of an “ideal society”. The scenario, it should be noted, is not exclusive to the Americas of the third world, since serious difficulties afflict the developed world and its great powers. The expansion of the territory, a kind of “terrestrial selfishness”, keeps Russia at odds with the rest of the world due to the invasion of Ukraine and China willing to apply the syllogism, in relation to Taiwan. The giants in a bind trying to solve the dilemma and for their own benefit. A global war, many people see it as likely.
Bolivian politician Carlos Sánchez Berzain often uses the word “Castrochavismo” to refer to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which he describes as “narco-states.” The mentors Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and Daniel Ortega. The long-awaited election of Petro in Colombia (who by this date is already President, generating enormous expectations) and the probable election of Lula in Brazil, whose ties with the Argentina of the Fernández/Kirchner duo would surely solidify, redraws the continent, as they usually do say, “red red”. The Venezuelan Vladimiro Mujica speaks of “authoritarian populism”, derived from the belief in a reformer Chávez who would put an end to a political system that generated poverty and exclusion, which led rather to an obsessive trap of wandering aimlessly returning again to the same dark rooms. Today’s reality is, then, that South and Central Americas have governments elected under the banner of putting an end to inequality and exclusion. For this the world was organized and the goal continues. Difficulties, great.
The severe trances of humanity have broken with history whose past chapters testify to the vocation of the peoples to development. Simon Bolívar and San Martín in the Americas constitute evidence of the construction of countries, at least, according to the experiences that generated stability in the corresponding times, even on a par with structured societies of the time. The Peru of past centuries, revealing that its inhabitants arrived 15,000 years ago from Asia through the Bering Strait creating the well-known Inca empire, with the caveat that thousands of years before there were cultures that acquired a high degree of development. It is as if to remember the conjugation of the verbs “past, present and future”, a way perhaps to investigate which of the stages was better in the Americas. The appraisals and expectations,
One has to wonder which of the governments elected in the South and Central Americas in recent decades, which have sold out the representation of the middle and poor classes, could qualify as the sanest. Mujica’s assessment of Caracas affirms that “Chavismo and its sequels” destroyed Venezuela, hitting other countries that he charmed with his verbiage. All the worst happened and there is no place in the world where you think otherwise.
Democracy for Carlo Bordoni has acquired an abstract content, just like the terms “freedom and happiness”. A few governments define themselves as democratic, but strictly speaking they constitute “false assumptions” regarding the people who elect them. It is emptied of its original meaning of “government of the people”, a premise that is increasingly viewed with skepticism and open suspicion.
The presumption of respect for the exercise of the function of government with the appropriate formal dress matters little to Pedro Castillo and other heads of state, who detest the tie and perhaps attend the councils of ministers in flannel, a presumed identification with the people. So they may end up with turtleneck sweaters and suits like Steve Jobs and Zaha Hadid, typical of the so-called “creative class.”
It is not surprising that Pedro Castillo dreams that Sapa Inca, the sovereign of the Inca Empire, appeared to him ordering him to remove his hat.
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