False dilemmas and real options in current Latin American debate

This article points out the apparent inevitability that any controversy will lead to a reductio ad absurdum, that is to say that the points of view under discussion will be carried to an extreme which distorts them and renders the discussion sterile. This seems to apply to a number of dilemmas which taken to their opposing extremes, become false dilemmas or disjunctive propositions which do not reflect the true nature of the options and causes at the heart of the real controversy.