Authoritarian regressions and democratic suspensions in the drama of Mexico

Abstract

Review of: Israel Covarrubias, The drama of Mexico. Subject, law and democracy, Prologue by Rafael Estrada Michel, Mexico, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2012, 203 pages, ISBN: 978-607-487-526-3. Usually thinking about democracy makes us uneasy; perhaps it is so because of the burden of political uncertainty with which professional politicians make use of democracy in their speeches and not as a way of life worthy of coexistence between the subjects who increasingly exercise their participation to give greater democratic content to the affairs of the political power. The uneasiness does not imply that we must accept what appears to be inevitable for our country: an uncertain democratic consolidation. Some social movements in Mexico have taken sides and taken charge of the reality that the government ignores to create an authentic and popular democracy. For Walter Benjamin it is about the subjects of historical knowledge who fight for their condition of oppressed (On the concept of history, Thesis XII).