"With democracy come with democracy education, democracy will cure."
Raul Ricardo Alfonsin
Former President of Argentina
By: Omar J. Candia Aguilar
Stop and think about the usefulness of democracy could be a dialectical abstraction work, hard and for some idle. However, I think it's worth doing in a society where there is still a major public sector agnostic and indifferent to the benefits that democracy brings.
If we review the Latinobarómetro 2010, see only 61% of Latin Americans prefer democracy to any other form of government, a considerable 15% prefer an authoritarian government, 16% gives the same an authoritarian or a democratic one and 7% have no opinion whatsoever. These percentages of public perception we generate several readings. One of them, there is a sector that can not see the concept and form of democratic government, so do not know or no opinion, when consulted on the preferred form of government for them. For the other sector indifferent to democracy, they feel that government decisions will not affect them at all, or worse, that whatever form of government conditions Social not vary. In contrast to the sector it is preferable to an authoritarian government to democratic front perceive that democracy has not solved the main problems and probably a government that concentrates power can do, commonly heard "you need to solve tough the problems. "
The Barometer of the Americas, another instrument that measures the people's perception, indicates that in Peru, support for democracy has declined relative to the survey conducted in 2008, that year was support for democracy of 65.5% and in 2010 was reduced to 60.1%. This decline may be due to the inefficiency of those who govern the country to solve the problems of poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, unemployment and acts of frivolity and corruption to which we are accustomed to the ruling class.
The responsibility of supporting democracy to grow and strengthen, or quasi percentage reaches majority and Uruguay, 86.2% support for democracy, is mainly in charge who have been conducting various levels of government , to make people understand that democracy is imperfect but perfectible.
In a democracy we have the great opportunity to elect our leaders, supervise them, to express ourselves freely, to question what seems questionable, to protest against to abuse, compared with unmet demands and what is more important to uphold human rights. We must show that a strong democracy and solid, can lead us to a just, equitable and inclusive, with rights, freedoms and dignity for all its citizens, so we can paraphrase Churchill "Democracy may have problems, but it is best system of government. "
Raul Ricardo Alfonsin
Former President of Argentina
By: Omar J. Candia Aguilar
Stop and think about the usefulness of democracy could be a dialectical abstraction work, hard and for some idle. However, I think it's worth doing in a society where there is still a major public sector agnostic and indifferent to the benefits that democracy brings.
If we review the Latinobarómetro 2010, see only 61% of Latin Americans prefer democracy to any other form of government, a considerable 15% prefer an authoritarian government, 16% gives the same an authoritarian or a democratic one and 7% have no opinion whatsoever. These percentages of public perception we generate several readings. One of them, there is a sector that can not see the concept and form of democratic government, so do not know or no opinion, when consulted on the preferred form of government for them. For the other sector indifferent to democracy, they feel that government decisions will not affect them at all, or worse, that whatever form of government conditions Social not vary. In contrast to the sector it is preferable to an authoritarian government to democratic front perceive that democracy has not solved the main problems and probably a government that concentrates power can do, commonly heard "you need to solve tough the problems. "
The Barometer of the Americas, another instrument that measures the people's perception, indicates that in Peru, support for democracy has declined relative to the survey conducted in 2008, that year was support for democracy of 65.5% and in 2010 was reduced to 60.1%. This decline may be due to the inefficiency of those who govern the country to solve the problems of poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, unemployment and acts of frivolity and corruption to which we are accustomed to the ruling class.
The responsibility of supporting democracy to grow and strengthen, or quasi percentage reaches majority and Uruguay, 86.2% support for democracy, is mainly in charge who have been conducting various levels of government , to make people understand that democracy is imperfect but perfectible.
In a democracy we have the great opportunity to elect our leaders, supervise them, to express ourselves freely, to question what seems questionable, to protest against to abuse, compared with unmet demands and what is more important to uphold human rights. We must show that a strong democracy and solid, can lead us to a just, equitable and inclusive, with rights, freedoms and dignity for all its citizens, so we can paraphrase Churchill "Democracy may have problems, but it is best system of government. "
