Entre pandemia y posverdadEl auge de los populismos

Abstract

The international community has been shocked by the scourge of a pandemic generated by the coronavirus that has disrupted the usual rules of coexistence, leading to the mandatory confinement of the population, measures of temporary limitation of individual freedoms and having to regret numerous deaths all over the planet. In addition, the unease and uncertainty generated by the plague has led to the development of false news that, generally of unverified origins, have been causing greater insecurity and irrational fears about the nature of the pandemic. To all this, with tortious intentions, some totalitarian and populist governments have taken advantage of the prevailing confusion to further limit individual rights and weaken the democratic model and the rule of law, in the face of which serious and considered reflection is necessary. in order to expose these anti-democratic currents that are hiding themselves in the Iliberal model of democracy