Latin America is experiencing multiple crises, interconnected and difficult to separate from each other: structural inequality, drug trafficking, political disaffection, expansion of disinformation, lack of trust in institutions. All this translates into a growing distrust in the democratic system, an increase in social polarization and a breakdown in coexistence.
Mariano Jabonero, secretary general of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI), and Ramón Jáuregui, former member of the European Parliament and president of the Euroamérica Foundation, discussed all this during the Trends 2025 Event in a speech moderated by Javier Moreno, former director of EL PAÍS and commissioner of Trends.
“I have never found such a polarized society. We are experiencing a very serious and structural crisis, not an episodic phenomenon”, underlined Jabonero. And he highlighted a specific problem: drug trafficking. He pointed out that in Mexico, for example, the turnover from the sale of medicines is greater than that of the sale of oil. Ramón Jáuregui agrees: “It has an economic power that no one can resist the famous phrase: silver or lead.” Both underlined that the insecurity generated by drug trafficking prevents the development of individual freedoms. “When that cancer penetrates, it is a metastasis, because it destroys institutions,” Jáuregui added.
Him Trends Event 2025 This is a meeting organized by EL PAÍS with the patronage of Abertis, Enagás, EY, Novartis, OEI (Organization of Ibero-American States), Redeia and Santander.
