Otto Perez Molina Quotes
We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results
Pérez Molina, Otto. "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drug nightmare." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 7 Apr. 2012.
There are a few modern progressive conservatives who believe this point of view, but most generally resist change.
This statement is very revealing in that it illustrates the attitude of the establishment of most developing nations. Traditional change is OK as long as it is not does transformational—ie as long as it does not make any meaningful changes. But modernization requires transformational change; without it there is no major reform and all institutions and power structures remain in their positions.
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina is a Guatemalan politician and retired general, who was President of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015. Standing as the Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) candidate, he lost the 2007 presidential election but prevailed in the 2011 presidential election. During the 1990s, before entering politics, he served as Director of Military Intelligence, Presidential Chief of Staff under President Ramiro de León Carpio, and as chief representative of the military for the Guatemalan Peace Accords. On being elected President, he called for the legalization of drugs.