Paraguay is burning: democracy in dispute
On Wednesday, November 11, at 16:00 PM in Argentina, Uruguay and most of Brazil (UTC-3), InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
-Paraguay is burning: democracy in dispute
The institutional outcome, accelerated by massive social mobilization, led to Peña's removal from office and arrest, exposing the contradictions of an accumulation model based on extractivism, financial deregulation, and the political patronage of the Colorado Party. Analysis by Álvaro Lo Bianco , Master of Social Sciences and professor at the National University of Asunción
-Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secihti) of Mexico
In September, in Mexico City, we visited the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secihti), the Mexican government institution that formulates and conducts national policy on the matter and articulates and coordinates the capabilities, knowledge, resources and talent of researchers and technologists to consolidate a National Scientific, Humanistic, Technological and Innovation System.
Interviews with:
Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, Undersecretary of Science and Humanities of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI).
Pedro Ovando Vázquez, Deputy Director of the Scientific and Humanistic Publications System of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI).
-Report “Civil society as a global public good”
– Asier Hernando holds a degree in Human Geography and a master's degree in Cooperation and Development from the University of the Basque Country, and a master's degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is the co-founder and co-director of ACÁPACÁ, a Latin American organization dedicated to transforming international cooperation from a decolonial perspective. He is also a professor at IE University in Spain.
– Sofía Sprechmann , Uruguayan sociologist based in Ecuador, member of the Board of Directors of Acápacá and co-chair of Pledge for Change 2030. Former Secretary General of CARE International, a charitable organization dedicated to development.
The document, prepared within the framework of the “ Permanent Latin American Forum for the Decolonization of Cooperation ”, proposes a profound paradigm shift in how the work of social movements, civil society organizations and activism is conceived and sustained in the region and at a global level.
-“ Critical thinking and transformative action”.
From October 27 to 29, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the CLACSO Member Centers in Chile are organizing the meeting " Critical Thinking and Transformative Action " in Santiago, Chile, together with the 115th meeting of the CLACSO Board of Directors.
Interviews with:
Laura Moreno Rodríguez, Mexico's ambassador to Chile
Wilson GomezMember of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Colombia
Jorge LealMember of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Uruguay
Ximena González BroquenMember of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Venezuela
The program on Wednesday, November 11th, covers one of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Democracies in dispute: horizons, resistances and construction of alternatives from the public and the common.”
She drives: Gustavo LemaDirector of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Christian Iturricha and Renata Maestrovicente
Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
