Director of CIEPS - International Center for Political and Social Studies, AIP-Panama. Professor Emeritus at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books: "The profession of politician" (Tecnos Madrid, 2020) and "Traces of a tired democracy" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2024).
The Summit for Summit 2023 is being held virtually on March 29 and 30. It is an excellent pretext to reflect on the state of democracy in Latin America.
The society of exhaustion consolidates the abundance with respect to formulas that, chronologically speaking are not so old, would seem to carry an unbearable longevity.
Although democracy is not at its best, elections do not seem to be at the core of reasons for concern to assume that democracy is undergoing a state of fatigue.
Lula has the support of a political party he founded four decades ago, which maintains a certain solvency in the political landscape and has the support of some traditional Brazilian politicians.
Costa Rica has broken with certain past practices such as bipartisanship and the survival of a traditional political class and has fully immersed itself in the new political times that have diluted the relatively stable frameworks that existed until a few years ago.
The recent Colombian elections and the predictions regarding the outcome of the Brazilian elections in October allow us to ask, as we pointed out fifteen years ago, what is the meaning of these changes.
In view of the previous failures and the murky preamble to the next Summit of the Americas, there is an urgent need to build a new logic of interaction.
