Editor’s Note

Entrepreneurial, political, media and judiciary elites have seized the global rudder and that of many national governments establishing two overlapped worlds: one of the elites and the other of large majorities of population. The elites’ world commits a myriad of abuses that mercilessly punish the vulnerable, destroy the environment, and suck out the value generated by the entire humanity. To achieve that, it cultural and economically subdue the majorities; it appropriates strategic results that condition the trajectories of our societies and colonizes the minds to sterilize resistances. If that were not enough, elites have the power to destabilize popular-base democratic governments until they are ousted.   The challenge that many of us assume is transforming through political interventions this order imposed behind the back of the world population. It is a tough but necessary path to face. It is an uphill climb full of obstacles, such as: international agreements the elites try to impose in negotiations hidden from public opinion, the imposition of public policies that keep down defenses when face with the possibility of a new global crises, as well as by ignoring a diversity of collective heroes that struggle every day to restore better life spaces. These are issues we address this month, identifying problems and outlining possible, alternative courses of action. Greetings   The Editors

In Opinion Sur we have been pointing out that the manipulation of consciences is steadily expanding around the globe generating serious constraints for peace and general wellbeing. Against that there is no place for a stunned gaze. It is necessary to redouble efforts to disentangle what is happening and support those who are able to build new courses and way of functioning. In this issue we analyze the social cost of several decades of concentrating and globalizing neoliberalism in United States, how colonization of minds is used to subdue societies that are driven to support or tolerate policies that infringe upon their own interests and needs, and how people’s culture can be the basis for building an inclusive and sustainable referential utopia. Greetings,   The Editors

Corruption cannot be condoned and must be social and legally condemned. What is inadmissible is that certain acts of corruption get reported as part of political operations against popular-based governments while it remains ignored and hidden the large corruption done every day of every year by powerful concentrated groups and their accomplices in the media, politics, and the judiciary. An irrefutable indicator is that in tax havens/heavens just 3% of the ill-gotten resources deposited there come from corruption, 30% from organized crime, and the remaining huge 2/3 come from great corporations and rich people. It is the old tale of incarcerating burglars with loudspeakers and pretended indignation, while those who destroy entire nations live secure in the opulence and impunity that they surely know how to purchase. In this issue of Opinion Sur we resume this subject from a geopolitical vision as well as in the context of captured democracies.   Greetings, The Editors

On March 8^th the economist Aldo Ferrer passed away at his commendable 88 years old. A maestro, like those honorable and brave, that enlightens when he expresses his ideas. …

Evidence is overwhelming with no margin for doubt: global trajectory has cross over extremely dangerous limits regarding concentration of power and wealth, environmental destruction, lack of opportunities and job precariousness. …