Gerontocracy without Borders, by Manuel Arias Maldonado

Few cruder definitions of politics than the one provided at the time – 1936 – by the American Harold Lasswell: the means through which we determine who gets what, when and how. They could well be tattooed, as if they were members of a Chinese triad, the Basque and Catalan nationalists; six years they have taught us how to exploit the situation of necessity in which a minority government finds itself that – let’s not fool ourselves – also takes i…