political and economic concentration in the capital has been the biggest inheritance from the past century, as we enter the new century without us removed the cancerous tumor is centralism. The distrust of self-governing capacities of the regions, the capital's paranoia of territorial disintegration and the tradition of centralization in the capital have historically established concentration model that has stifled all efforts of the provinces and autonomous regions. However, we run the risk of being absorbed by a wicked poke in the past, perhaps because in the endless search explanation of our arrears, hoping to be exempted from responsibility for them?
it is time to face and "take the bull by the horns" implies first fully convinced that decentralization is the shortest path to development and, although there is talk of decentralization decades ago, today is the only way in the absence of ideas and alternative proposals.
This concept - decentralization for development, has acquired an unusual importance to the phenomenon of globalization. We see countries that are blurred to regroup in supranational political and economic structures, while regions and cities is strengthened to recover the identity and to compete for capital and technology. We all yearn to travel the roads of developing countries, where popular sovereignty, equality before the law and confidence in the power of local self-government and regional communities, are guiding principles in our country, longing which are more fervent in the circumstances so dramatic by crossing regions.
In our countries so far only been developed decentralized processes shy, but genuine decentralization that involves giving a self-governing regions chosen for the same region, with broad decision-making power and authority, with budgetary resources managed by the same regions, enabling them to promote regional development based on their own interests and decisions. The proceeds of the tax, they are not equally redistributed among the regions, the capitals focus not only power but also profit. The central government in many years has shown the ability to formulate coherent policies based on decentralization to promote regional development, this shows that you can not manage the regions from hundreds of comfortable offices in the capital. The persistence of a regime viciously potential risks-fired power certainly debatable, the former has to do with economic stability not only regions but the country as a whole, says Sergio Boissier "a country and a strong economy in the long run is a country of" strong regions. "exaggerated territorial macrocephaly is imcompatible with an economy to maintain its macroeconomic balances in the time "other risk areas makes potential sources of discontent, Alvin Toffler explains this in his famous book The Third Wave" Central governments in general continue to impose uniform policies aimed at a mass society, on public increasingly divergent and segmented . They forget or ignore the local and individual needs, making the flames of resentment reached white-hot temperature. As demassification progresses we expect the centrifugal secessionist forces intensified dramatically and threaten the unity of many nation-states. "Such expressions seem to have been written with the current reality of our regions.
The regional development strategies tomorrow must come from Lima or Santiago, if not be done in our regions. Those who live in the regions and we must not tolerate the arrival of instant experts of the capital, barely off the plane, not knowing our reality come to offer their magic bullets to solve our regional problems, it offends our capabilities.
We must take action, if we do we risk becoming complicit in the backwardness of our own regions. The responsibility for change is up to us. Are two choices: join the indolence of mere spectators or to say I play for my region but lose to save them. We begin with ourselves, learning to open our minds to the new, seemingly radical, as we begin to act as genuine decentralist, demonstrate whether or not we are regionalist. Formulate a political project instigator of wills, showing an imaginary am today able to discipline and steer it to the way it attracts the white arrow and the bow tends. Our proposal is to unite efforts in this fight regardless of frontiers, as centralism is not a problem unique to a country, there is also beyond the border and at an even more ferocious version. Diego Benavente paraphrase Millan: together we are always more although we are not close.
