Page 3 - MONTT LATIN AMERICAN MAGAZINE, MAY 2021, (English)

-Editorial-
How to Face the Tsunami and Build a New Reality?
“We, ordinary men, will have to be the ones who will have to think, and show in simple words where the paths of the construction of our new reality go, and those of us who are in this spirit will meet to pressure those that occupy political o ice to cleanse their minds of petty interests”.
Santiago Montt, President of Montt Group
enormous forces, neither seen nor perceived? The answer seems to be that they were always there, contained by tradition and the past; tradition and the past that generated natural restraining barriers to these impulses and that made the reality they lived tolerable for them, because they felt as normal as the existence of our Andes Mountains that crosses almost all South American countries. However, something happened and that high level of tolerance that existed in our social masses to accept their reality until very recently, was sharply diluted, and the level of tolerance dropped drastically to another new level from which we are still unable to identify where it left o , but it is obvious that the previous Andes Mountains are no longer there, and there is complete visibility throughout the entire society, exposing an inequality that today is seen as intolerable among the di erent members of our societies.
Warned by the social masses, this unbearable inequality then provokes the irresistible detonation. What was it, or who was it, that raised the Andes Mountains? It seems that the answer is clear and simple: it was technology, it was social networks, cell phones, continuous and immediate access to valid or invalid information, constantly showing the di erent realities that interact in society, which was decreasing centimetre to
All of us Latin Americans, particularly those of on the Pacific coast, perhaps with the exception of Ecuador, live in times of confusion and greater instability.
The social events experienced by Chile, Peru, and Colombia are of a similar basis, The peoples of all these nations broke down the barriers that contained them until today, and with irresistible force and aggressiveness broke the social structures and began to demand with immediate e ect a reconstruction of society in its very structure, not in adjective aspects, but in its fundamental bases.
The direction, the replacement framework, the objectives and precise tools to be used, and much less the public nancing necessary to achieve it, are completely unknown factors, even with certainty non-existent, but this social tsunami is not rational, but rather an irrepressible impulse, founded on the desire to improve, if we look at it in its creative aspect; or in the resentment of feeling harmed, if we see it in the negative aspect. Both sides coexist and are co-essential to each other, as in a coin, remaining pending for history to know which of the two sides will prevail.
It is di icult to reason in the face of a tsunami of this nature, and you can only ask a few questions to orient yourself. The rst one is where were these
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