CELARG Announces Winner of the International Essay Contest “Sovereignty, Imperialism, and Critical Thought” Asdrúbal Jesús Alamilla González, from Carabobo, Venezuela, is the winner of the International Essay Contest “Sovereignty, Imperialism, and Critical Thought,” organized by CELARG, Casa de las Américas of Cuba, and the Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity (REDH). His work, “Decolonizing Sovereignty: The Commune, Trench of Life and Care,” was unanimously selected by the jury—comprised of Ximena González Broquen, Humberto González Silva, and Fernando Luis Rojas López—from among 51 essays submitted from 14 countries. Works mentioned for publication: 1. “The Civilizational Shield of Our America: Genealogy of Insurgent Thought in the Face of the Imperial Necropolitics of the 21st Century” - Juan Eduardo Romero Jiménez (Venezuela) 2. “A Popular Passion: National Sovereignty, Between the Variegated and the Plebeian” – Jaime Ortega Reyna (Mexico) 3. “The Class Struggle on a Global Scale and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in Latin America: An Approach from Historical Materialism and Critical Theory” - Patricio Adrián Brodsky (Argentina) 4. “Cuban International Medical Collaboration” – Jean Cruz (Argentina) 5. “Against the Leviathan in the Cloud: Notes for the Decolonization of Technological Thought” – Ernesto Acosta (Venezuela) 6. “The Eagle and the Necessary Song: Sovereignty, Imperialism, and Critical Thought in Our America” – Moisés Cárdenas (Venezuela) 7. “Toward a World Where Many Worlds Fit.” Neo-Zapatismo, a critique of global neoliberalism and its contemporary projections - Karen Muriel Schmidt (Argentina) 8. "When will we tire of breathing the same air they breathe? A Fanonian reading of the Haitian Declaration of Independence" - Marcos Vinícius Lustosa Queiroz (Brazil) 9. "From discovery to Monroe 2.0: The doctrine of domination and the 21st-century crusade" - Gabriela Segura-Ballar (Costa Rica)
