By Jorge Rolón Luna* According to the United Nations World Drug Report 2022, around 284 million people aged between 15 and 64 used drugs worldwide in 2020 (an increase of 26% compared to the previous decade). Youth drug use also grew, surpassing the previous g... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia In a recent article, we recovered the argument of Pierre Rosanvallon who examined the principles of legitimacy of democratic governments. According to the French sociologist, throughout the twentieth century a democratic system of dual le... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The use of consciousness-altering substances should be a health issue. And this, it should be added, when such use is considered “problematic”. Drug use does not always have that character; in other words, it does not always affect a perso... More »
By Javier Lassalle. The National Concertation “For a New Paraguay” suffered some schisms when the presidential pre-candidatures were made official. Cruzada Nacional de Paraguayo Cubas and part of Frente Guasu withdrew from it and will go to the general electio... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola The low voting participation of young people under 30 is frequently mentioned as one of the reasons why electoral results always end up favoring party structures. In this hypothesis, it is stated -almost mystically- that if young people wer... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia There is a certain consensus in the academic world that something is happening to democracies in all latitudes. Different authors, from different areas of the social sciences, have been warning about a crisis of democracy, whether in term... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna In 1875, the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco (USA) issued a ban on opium dens, marking, perhaps, the initiation of an offensive model against consciousness-altering substances that is still in force today. 147 years later, the same country ... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola On July 8, the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) finally aknowledged the National Concertation. In the same act, it also resolved the controversy over the use of the Permanent Civic Registry (RCP) for the formation of the electoral... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna The agreement of a large sector of the opposition to the governing party has resulted in the creation of the Concertation to compete in the 2023 presidential elections. This Concertation intends to use the Permanent Civic Registry (RCP) as ... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia Now that the Concertation, as a legal figure, has become unobjectionable to the opposition, new disagreements arise regarding the type of election of the presidential candidacy. When it seemed that the internal election by open register ... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola A little over a year ago, the Center for Analysis and Dissemination of the Paraguayan Economy (CADEP), the best think tank in the country, 17th in the region and 68th in the world (in international economic policy), highlighted the excess p... More »
By Fernando Martínez Escobar Among the political forces that make up the recently created Concertation, there are basically two positions in relation to the conformation of the lists for the Senate; one seeks to present a unified list and the other to maintain... More »