Visioni LatinoAmericane 21 (2019)

Reflecting on the current execrable Brazilian political scenario and the innumerable national scandals, the Authors study one of the guiding principles of administrative activity, perhaps the most relevant for a good management of public affairs. In particular, they consider the penalties imposed on public officials in the event of a crime against administrative morality and the instruments with which the Brazilian legal system is equipped to stem such crimes.

During the few months in which it was involved in the First World War, Brazil did not take part to notable military operations. Despite this, its participation to the conflict would have had important consequences on the evolution of the Brazilian armed forces and of its international relations.

The Authors examine the conditions of inequality in Brazil, from the return to democracy in 1985 and the reconfiguration of political and economic forces in 2014. They analyze the achievements and retroces-sions in urban social policies favored by the changes that took place in the country.

The Author illustrates the possible integration of the favela in the city of the XX-XXI century, starting from the experience of Rio de Janeiro. He presents some examples of policies and programs implemented in Latin America, which aim to articulate urban tissues in the recuperation of public space.

The failure of many progressist Latin American governments, including the Brazilian one, has contributed to the emergence of populist right-wing governments in the 21st century. At a deeper level, this stems from theoretical and practical problems related to the complex and symbiotic relationship between development and democracy. To understand these problems the historical requisites, necessary to organize a society of solidarity in an unequal world, must be analyzed with greater incisiveness even if they are not related to the process of organic acceleration of capitalism. The Author proposes a reform of the State and of politics capable of promoting a new republican pact inspired by convivialism.

The Authors intervene on the debate concerning the recognition of quilombola communities in Brazil, incorporated in the coloniality of power. The suspicious considerations on the quilombola evocations are interpreted as not very "authentic" or strictly instrumental. The objective is to demonstrate ethnographically how such requests for recognition reflect a moral vocation.

In discussing the struggle for hegemony in contemporary Brazil, the Author reflects on social participation, on the cracks that culminated in the days of June 2013, on the importance of passions, emotions and religion in political and cultural life.

The Author with this essay, result of a research work carried out in February 2014 at the Centro de estudios andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas in Cuzco, offers a contribution to the historical-anthropological understanding of the hetero-construction of the indian drunk by nature (indio borracho por natura) present in andean Peru between 16th and 19th centuries.

The Author reflects on the path through which Latin America, thanks above all to its own original philosophical vision, has managed to emerge in the world cultural panorama; from fundadores to Vasconcelos, up to Leopoldo Zea. The Author considers some steps that led to the liberation of the Latin American identity from the condition of subordination in which it was placed by the West.

The deep dissatisfaction with the globalizing neoliberal model is also undermining many balances pursued by the liberal state, first and foremost the rights of the person and an equitable distribution of wealth. In reflecting on the dynamics involved, the Author proposes a new participatory pact, able to put at the center the person, Nature and social justice.