10 On other occasions I have written here about the crisis of democracy and its weakening at the hands of the wildest capitalism and the individualistic and consumerist culture it promotes. Today, however, and especially after the elections in Colombia on Sunday the 21st and other events happening not so far from home, I want to express my personal and political doubts about what we call 'democracy'. Or, if you prefer, about the meaning we attribute to an instrument that increasingly resembles an empty shell.

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