Opinion Sur
When the crisis burst, the populations of affluent countries lost the chance to change the course and the concentrative way of functioning that prevailed, and still prevails, in their countries. Privilege trembled but had the strength and the skill not only to protect itself from the hurricane they had generated but of emerging more strengthened as the crisis progressed. The costs they imposed upon their people and that they seek to transfer onto the rest of the world where resistance is strong, have been tremendous.
With people reactions in Spain, Greece and the rest of Europe, and particularly what happened in Italy, first clear electoral sign of the indignation and the ‘that‘s it‘, financial power will have to modify something in the affluent countries so that in essence not much changes. They have already gone as far as they could go in the present circumstances and now they will have to give way to an economic recovery. The enormous risk it entails is that, with an exhausted population and the defenses weakened, privilege could smuggle a restoration of the pre-crisis order instead of its transformation. Here lies a new challenge and, if faced properly, a new opportunity to pursue new courses. In this issue of Opinion Sur some of these crucial questions are addressed.
Cordial Greeting.
The Editors
