Real Democracy

The following report by Pressenza’s Peru editorial team draws in part on information and mobilisation materials from the Plataforma Ciudadana en Defensa de la Vida y la Seguridad, which called a national march in Lima on 22 September in response…

Modern democracy faces a growing contradiction. At the very moment societies have become more interconnected and more complex, political life has become increasingly centered on individual personalities. Elections often revolve less around institutions, long-term goals, or collective problem-solving than around…

As the vote count continues, the country remains in a tense atmosphere, and certain actions are revealing the true nature of the “new order.” Today at approximately 5 p.m., a group of self-organized Peruvians and supporters of the Juntos por…

As Western values—democracy, free-market capitalism, international law—melt away like ice cream in the summer sun, the media frames this decline as apocalyptic, as if humanity itself teeters on the edge of extinction. But this is hardly the first time human…

On 10 December, Human Rights Day (HRD) was celebrated all over the world, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris in 1948. This declaration was a very important historical milestone in…

The King is dead! Long live the King! is the well-known phrase used in France at the death of a monarch to announce the enthronement of his successor. The motto, used since 1422 on the occasion of the death of…

From a geopolitical look, the most general context of the moment is the attempt by the United States to halt its decline as a unipolar power and its refusal to accept the consolidation of a multipolar world, with much more…

The Chilean Constituent Convention has presented the draft of a new Constitution that will be submitted to popular approval by means of a plebiscite called for next September 4. It is interesting to note that this new text has been…

26.04.2019 – Santiago de Chile – Pía Figueroa We interviewed Guillermo Sullings, former Argentine humanist candidate for the Presidency of the Nation and current coordinator of the Real Democracy Network at the IV Latin American Humanist Forum, which will meet…

For the past eight weeks, the people of France have been mobilizing every Saturday in demonstrations in small and large cities throughout the country, and in smaller groups at roundabouts and tollgates, from where they’re making their grievances and demands…