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-Editorial-
Millennials in the Region
“Perhaps this generation of millennials who only listens to their cell phone can accomplish what was not achieved in the famous interview between San Martín and Bolívar, which should have been to keep Hispanic America together. Perhaps now that interview will be done by cell phone in a chat of hundreds of thousands that break the misconception that has existed in our Latin America of not understanding that we are the same nation. “
By Santiago Montt, president of Montt Group
antagonistic doctrines such as North American neoliberalism and communist authoritarianism, distributed in small countries, atomized in the independence activity of the early XIX century, especially in Latin America.
At this point in history, it is difficult to understand what the Republics from Latin America did, to divide ourselves to the extreme of generating countries without much viability of greater development, which today is weighing heavily and will gravitate every time in the future. It is clear that moving towards the next phase of development, beyond extractive economies such as we are, requires large countries, with important internal markets, powerful institutions capable of handling large budgets, all of which require significant sizes that today Andean America does not have, and at least today we see that we are far from possessing it.
It is enough to read the results of the recent international meeting called by the Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to realize the deep rivalries that exist, represented in an important part by the presence of Cuba and Venezuela and still an intolerant attitude towards the United States.
In that context are our millennials. If we are going to search their unconscious, we will find that there are no important referents, no significant religious antecedents. The great relevance that the Catholic Church had in Latin America
We will address the issue of Latin American Millennials. It is difficult to talk about this subject since there is little written material on this subject for our subcontinent, as in general there is little documentation about the human of this Region, starting from its origins since the arrival of Europeans, to later undergo profound transformations by the superimposition of that culture by a minority. Then, continuing with the long process of the Colony to reach the early awakening of the Republics, caused by the Napoleonic wars in Europe (without being an insurrection caused at the base), until reaching the 20th century with the irruption of new ideologies that had as recipients the peoples and not the ruling classes, basically the communist parties, and to end the history of the last 80 years that more or less we all know.
The Latin American Millennial is in general a confused heir to all this, born after 1980, especially on the west coast of the Pacific of Latin America, in so-called neoliberal regimes, characterized by economies of extraction of natural wealth and with policies of great openness towards abroad, which caused impressive progress, forming new middle classes in a significant percentage of the population. They agreed to the consumption and a better education of their children, all of whom are today these millennials, heirs of the earth, developed under pressure with the events described, ideologically constrained by
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