Davos, useful?

The Davos Forum is on again in this beautiful town in Switzerland. Interesting speakers and subjects are intensely debated. Really?

Take this year: a debate on Latin America in which no mention is made of drug trafficking and the 30.000 deaths it has caused in what is in reality a civil war in Mexico our nearest neighbor; a debate on the Middle East in which the fact that the talks have been interrupted once again is not mentioned once; the revolution in Tunisia and in other Arab States is barely an issue in debates on politics; and Assange and Wikileaks are absent in all the debates about the future of international relations.

Efforts have been made to bring these and other issues to the front of the debates, but with little success so far. Up to now, Davos has survived and thrived because of the quality of the discussions and debates, but this year is, so far, quite disappointing, at least to me.