Adrian Monck: World Economic Forum Director of Communication Interview by Daniela Araya

Adrian Monck, director of communications of the Word Economic Forum and panelist of today’s “Democracy after journalism discussion” had a few minutes to give his impressions about journalism and the sustainabily of the democratic systems in Latin America specifically.

¿How can journalists put pressure on coercive governments if they keep been threat for denoncing thier own democratic problems?

“I think one of the weakness of journalism is actually how easily is to kill, torture and opress journalists.”

“You look a this situation in Latin America where narcoterrorism is right, journalists are been killed in enourmous numbers doing very rutine work, so I think in a sence it tells you everything about how weak in comparaison and powerless journalism is.”

“I think people talks about the power and the influence of journalism in a way that they´re grossly over estimate the real abilities that those human beings actually do have to make a difference. The reality is we actually need political systems that adress most of these issues, you actually need anti-corrup inmunity in governements.” .

Do you have any perspectives of how to make democracy more suitable to the actual global needs?

“Democracy is very old. Now on the twenty one century people need new ways to decide on things.. Democracy increasingly does not work in the way democratic institutions work . How can we reconstruct the way desitions are been made?”

“Transnational politics. I´m a citizen of a transnational state, Great Britain, , Wales… all different nations and yet one centralized government; so if it works for the United Kingdom, and look at the US has a federal governement. I think we need to adress globally in terms of climate, energy, wealth distributions, all of those. To me our common humanity is where we need to start, in a global level we need to work togheter in institutions that start building some kind of representativity.”