Far-right: CIA agents Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero The elections that take place this year have as a paradigm the clash between two forms of Mexican time. 1. The construction of a form of authoritarian obedience and 2. Democratic anarchism. In the illiberal Ibero-American Catholic culture, strong leaders are indispensable, democracy generates conflicts that public morality does not know how to resolve. Ibero-America is distinguished by a deep sense of chaos. Informality and immorality are imposed on the character of the peoples and only in exceptional or minute cases, some are distinguished by honesty. Democracy is bad for the Latin American peoples, their elites do not have the capacity to govern with quality. Nor does a civic condition survive in the largest minority reached by the government. Phenomena like Franco, the PRI, Perón, Pinochet, Ortega, Somoza, Castro, etc; they are part of a tradition that values strength more than freedom. From a distance, they seem neither total...