El Salvador : the unfinished transition

Abstract

Today, more than ever, the classic philosopher Heraclitus' statement that "the only thing that really exists is change" makes sense. We live in a reality of constant transformations, full of uncertainties, composed by an intense and complex web of events. The political reality of our times can be attributed to what was said by the physicist Capra about the quantum reality: it is a reality "of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world that does not contain straight lines or absolutely regular shapes, where things do not happen in sequences but all together ... "(Capra, 1983: 39). We are, as Salvador Pániker would say, in the era of fluidity and hybridity. (Pániker, 2005). Reality always goes before our concepts. The political reality of Latin America has changed a lot in the last 20-25 years, but our categories of analysis and approaches have changed little.