People chant to drums during a rally by Social Movements for Democracy at a camp set up by supporters of President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Brazil. Saturday, April 16, 2016. AP Photo/Felipe Dana.
There is no doubt that the dynamics of society are changing in the 21st century. New ways of producing, consuming, communicating and relating are being added to the known, traditional forms. New ways of thinking about distribution and access. And new ways of thinking about intermediation and participation.
Worldwide, this shows in growing dissatisfaction with the political process and the limits of democracy as we know it. The characteristics of democracy in Latin America are linked to its historical formation and generate limits of its own to the participation demands of a dynamic 21st century society in transformation.
