Quin Power

From our most tender age learned, most of us in the classroom, which are three public powers. And it has taught us also that this Division is one of the most important popular achievements because it excludes possibility of one person to govern at the same time that issuing laws and imparts justice, as it happens in the territories oppressed by tyranny. In biblical times Herod and Pilate, rulers who represented the Roman power, had at the same time the investiture of judges to judge and condemn the defendants in a clear expression of the powers concentrated in the same person. Today, when most free countries have firmly established the three branches of public power, which in addition must be autonomous and independent, cabals are made on what is the fourth power. Which power of all is the most important after you have leaders, legislators and judges? To the media and, especially, the press is mentioned often as the fourth power, precisely because of its influence on public opinion and how that affects the traditional powers are accepted or rejected by majorities. However, the emblematic journalist, writer and Professor Javier Dario Restrepo has another opinion. In his book forty lessons of ethics claims the power of the journalist is not which has traditionally wanted to imply with the term fourth estate.

The true fourth estate is society, which, with your vote, appoints or dismisses the holders of the three traditional powers as the author cited appears because the society as the true fourth power; However, it is obvious that in an age like ours, and in a country like that we saw the birth, there are other powers of equal or greater scope than those already mentioned. Economic power, for example, is not only a force, but something very similar to a God that everything decides it, imposes it and change it. Even seduce society, so that this, in turn, appoint or dismiss the powers traditional. If something or someone does not engage in this power, it is destined to disappear. And hospitals who have ever attended to the poor have already disappeared.

And are about to privatize universities in where for years have formed the sons and daughters despueblo. But there are other powers, some of them not so obvious, like fear, which prevents us from acting as we would like and we should for fear of reprisals. And the organised crime that is able to seize the most important institutions of society through their enveloping networks of boundless wealth and corruption overwhelmed. Finally mention the most enigmatic powers: the power behind the power. When we discover what or who it is we will know why it happens what happens in the country. And in the world. Alejandro Rutto Martinez is a writer and journalist italo-colombiano who also teaches in several universities. He is the author of four books on ethics and leadership and is contained in three anthologies of Colombian authors. Contact to the cel. 300 8055526 or email. Please read their writings in MAICAO to D?A page in which you will find writings, chronicles and beautiful parts of the Colombian literature.

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