Opinion Sur
In several countries large social mobilizations emerge in demand for political and economic transformations. However we must not get confused because the differences between countries are as noticeable as the circumstances of each process are singular. Perhaps one of the few common denominators is the existence of long contained transformations and the inspiration that the impressive communicational development manages to transmit surpassing all sorts of obstacles and frontiers. Of course that the sparks thus spread ignite very different fires.
For now, it is necessary to be alert since forces that defend privileges obtained at the expense of large majorities always seek to profit from turbulences to protect their interests that are impossible to defend in plain sight: they infiltrate protest movements, finance those that are functional in order to clear risks that could in the short or mid-term have a negative effect on them. To do so they count with the media, strategic think tanks and judicial instances aligned with them.
Social outbursts end up being ineffective if they do not manage to project themselves into new or renewed political, social, economic organizations. Protests trigger processes but their course and nature is something that is built and fought day after day, it matures through good decisions, mistakes and correcting what needs to be corrected. Those who mobilize do not constitute a homogeneous space but, quite the opposite, a highly heterogeneous one. They coexist in very diverse mixtures, ordinary people, organized workers, social, academic movements, small producers, unemployed people, some with a distinct consciousness regarding the goals they pursue and others naive, confused, manipulated, schemers, fishermen that make their day in troubled waters.
Democratic are the winds inflating the sails but the course of our ships is set by captains and materialized by helmsmen. We will have to know how to choose them and, perhaps even more importantly, we will also need to support them so they can exercise their leadership. That is the risk and that the hope.
Cordial greeting.
The Editors
