Nelly Luna and Josefina Townsend with David Marcial Pérez

South to North Conversations: this democracy is not democracy

Arequipa 2025, Friday 7 November 2025

The rise of authoritarianism, disinformation, inequality and organised crime is threatening democracy as we know it. Nelly Luna, head of OjoPúblico, and the journalist Josefina Townsend present Esta democracia no es democracia, which analyses the interaction between the climate crisis and democratic collapse in the region through eleven interviews that explore matters such as the democratic promise, stories of resistance, memory, transformation and community work in order to rethink these urgent times. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez.