policy is continually changing, even when the dinosaurs did not realize it, until the circumstances, whether local or global, impose a new reality and is late for the old policy to react. On January 1, 1959 led by the bearded Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara entered Havana ending with the last remnant of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. On May 3, 1968 was the first student mobilization of magnitude, which started in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. On October 16, 1978 Karol Józef Wojtyla was elected the 264th pope and first non-Italian pope since 1522. On March 11, 1985 he was appointed Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. On January 20, 2009 assumed as the 44th President of United States Barack Hussein Obama II, the first black president in the history of the superpower.
mutually What do these facts and figures? That in all these cases the history was a turning point and from these facts there is a cleavage or a change of era.
The influence of the Cuban revolution in international relations from the 1960's to early 1990 was central in the development of the Cold War, from the time the third world countries, especially Latin Americans will in the heart of the dispute political and military of the two major powers of that time, the USA and USSR.
"forbidden to forbid, freedom starts with a ban" could be read on the walls of the Sorbonne. The youth of Paris of May 1968, if not toppled the ancien regime, achieved a social and political youth event, change the paradigm of society that existed in western industrialized countries, in the words of Marcuse resigned to the past laid off, everyday wealth, "organized irrationality," building in its place a "rational solidarity."
John Paul II with 58, was Pope youngest of the twentieth century and the fact of Polish origin and dramatic experience with communism, were key to that from the Catholic Church began a crusade for the liberation of Eastern Europe, without this fact the third wave of democratization been accomplished in the manner and speed with which it developed.
Linked to this, that a reformer like Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev would lead the Soviet Union during the 1980's, was instrumental in the fall of socialism, the end of the Cold War and the third wave of democratization. Gorbachev drove in three reforms that were called "uskoréniye" (acceleration) "Glasnost" (liberalization, openness) and perestroika (reconstruction), which determined the facts stated and a new world order.
These four characters and events linked to leaders of his time, changed the world that was known until that moment and gave birth to a new political time. Regarding Barack Obama, believe that something similar happens. With the newly assumed U.S. president, starts a new era, which already designed some time ago. In this, there is a new city, no predominance of gender, super-connected and therefore reported that this new era unanimously rejects violence and war, thereby ending the period of history where no excuse was invaded in the name of freedom, at Busch. At this time people are not satisfied with representative democracy or polyarchy Dahl, rather expect a high-intensity democracy, as proposed by O'Donnell, so tired of traditional politics and traditional politicians, the people more than preferred discourse testimony and consistency. Democracy is already taken, do not win, nor is there a fierce dispute between left and right (even though differences still exist in the dyad), so people expect more of the policy and are taken from old traumas, old defaults, and sectarianism.
Liberty, market and democracy are taken, the injustice is unacceptable, this new citizen voted for Obama, United States, Germany and also in Chile, the people rejoiced when a young, black and academic atypical, he defeated the Establishments of the Clinton and Busch, with nothing but his testimony and conviction. We all celebrate as if something touched us this change that Obama represents is that this "yes we can" is the time for a new era, which comes with a free policy, really, without crutches and crannies where people no longer are a mass, are a community of personalities, differences, with needs and dreams, in the context of an increasingly globalized world, conscious, interconnected and transparent media.
This time again we let the challenge of inserting it or watch it go sideways and breaking down as the dinosaurs. This new era, which Obama brand is the promise of hope.
Patricio Walker Prieto
Deputy Attorney of the Republic of Chile
Former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile Andres Jouannet Valderrama
Dr. in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg
Professor Catholic University of Temuco
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