A few months ago, the Argentine President Mauricio Macri said that "politics is about getting out of the office and addressing needs." Brazil's unpopular president, Michel Temer, has defined politics as "a religious act" which drives society to "fundamental values." Enrique Peña Nieto has confessed that his passion for politics dates from when he was very young and read in a newspaper that “the Government of the State of Mexico was handing out tractors to farmers".
Those who preside over the Latin American countries with the highest GDP and the largest population see politics as a tool which can generate "hope". Their preaching concludes that if "politics" does its job well, if it carries out the "right actions", it can change the lives of millions.
However, they rarely refer to how the very powerful structural changes in people's daily lives impact on the legitimacy of the current democratic system. And yet, we are living in a period of cultural revolution that is agitated by the omnipresence of information and communication technologies, where social practices run into systems of government designed and created in the 19th century.
