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International Course:
State, Politics and Democracy
in Latin America
The course was held between 10/2020 and 04/2021.
The classes are now in open access: https://americalatina.global/CursoInternacional/
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The challenges of democracy by José "Pepe" Mujica, former president of Uruguay.
“The main challenges of our democracy lie in the old contradiction that gave rise to it.
600 years before Christ there were too many debt slaves in Athens, and they were on the brink of a civil war. At that time, the one who was in debt became a slave. They elect a rare ruler, a poet: Cleisthenes. This was a pot of crickets. Cleisthenes decides to
free the slaves out of debt. But they, as they were still poor, asked to be given something to live on. Cleisthenes knew that this "something" had to be taken away from the oligarchy of his time, from whom the slaves were already taking away. It was too much. However, he decided to give them one thing: the vote in the Assembly. He began to give them political power. There is the origin of what will come later. "