Money in the history of humanity has almost always existed, ideally or really, and now, digitally, however, the mechanisms and secrets of its use have been for the benefit of those who exercise their power to create and destroy it, and of the governments, in addition to creating it, regulating it by the power that society grants them to lead and guarantee the life of this public good that is money. The evolution of technologies and their application in the manipulation of money and payment systems give certain clues to bare who and how benefit from this common good, money.

Today the new technologies put money back into the center of the debate, if this this common good will be at the service of society or will be used against it, for the benefit of a too select group of large corporations, especially with intimate relations with the Finance system. In the present issue, No. 33 of www.olafinanciera.unam.mx, several academics argue and debate about that history so far not so present in the power circuits and decision-making positions, since it is in their interest, that continue to be a subject of experts, when in reality they hide their true intentions to expand their margin of power, keeping in secret the secrets of the functioning of money.

In the present issue, actions are discussed to democratize the use of money, that is, that its use does not benefit a small segment of society by using and subjecting the vast majorities. These actions may be able to generate conditions to solve difficulties that have remained entrenched in the interstices of monetary wealth, jealously managed by a handful of speculators who have prevented evading the danger, contributing to sharpen the economic, political and social confrontation in all fields of social reproduction and geographical spaces.

The center of economic and financial power is becoming increasingly narrow and with it the difficulties of proposing alternatives that leave behind the old recipes, which more than alleviate, have been contributing to avoid the improvement of the conditions of increasingly larger groups of all societies, whether developed or not. As has been confirmed in the case of Greece, as in other countries and regions. It is necessary to begin to disagree as was the experience, in this aspect, of the government of R. Correa in Ecuador, creating possibilities to experiment alternatives. No doubt that this experience has not been well seen by the lords of money.

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