Javier Moreno: “Latin American presidents have so much power to do bad, but very little to do good” | International

Leaders of any Latin American country usually appear to be historically omnipresent leaders or big bosses, they move the threads in the state to steal, steal and suppress their opponents. If they are their power, why don’t they use it to end violence, poverty and corruption? They don’t want, because they don’t want or they want, but they can’t do it? That is provocative Javier MorenoLa Paes Y Today UM-El Pass School of Journalism, Launched by El Pace former Director Who makes the commandments here? (Talk), your new book.

“The power of Latin America presidents is uneven: they have a lot of power to do bad, but very little to do good,” Moreno said this on Thursday at Madrid’s Circle of Fine Arts during the show.

In the article, the writer will demolish the image of the Almighty rulers and restores the pressure facing leaders in ambiguity, internal struggles and power exercise. From the greatest class of ordinary places and political speeches, Moreno raises the journalistic portrait of the roles that often choose between two evils, choose their wars, settle down for Pirik’s success, or persuade themselves that they have done their part.

The protagonists have to be calibrated between “urgent, necessary and feasible”, Moreno says, and to prove their limitations to real forces such as organized crimes, media or military consortiums. Seven Latin American Presidents agreed to share their experiences: Chile Michelle Bachilet; Brazilians Fernando Henric Cardoso and Dilma Ruisef; Colombians Seser Gavaria and Juan Manual SantasAnd Mexicans Vicente Fox Y. Felipe Calderon.

However, Moreno’s book is not a general compilation of stories in the powerful back, but the attempt to understand the way you travel and observe the dangers of power to Latin America is the most uneven area of ​​the world, under the stable siege of drug trafficking and more than 650 million people living.

Despite the geographical penetration of the book, in Mexico and in the shadow of calling in the shadow of the call Narco war. “Over the past 30 years, the explosion of violence has occurred, which is not in line with the progress made in other parts of the country,” said Moreno, which accused the “state failure” and the territorial expansion of posters blame the factors behind the insecurity and absurd wave. “The state is unable to do anything,” he said in a conversation with journalist and writer Martin Capars, “that disability was constructive, but eventually the people were sent to the presidents.”

“In any part of the world, this sensation is that academics, rulers and Latin America will lose all its opportunities and its leaders violate their promises, and after the generation, the government, some of them, it is impossible to classify some of the other. It is a political film – it is a political film – it is a political film.

“This is not a pessimistic book. Trying to explain why we have reached this stage,” Moreno said. In spite of everything, there are VISA of Hope, the author said. Before Moreno farewell to say, “It is crazy, but I believe in the progress of society,” it does not spend next month, but it will not be written with stone. “