I support Marcio Pochmann, a prominent Brazilian intellectual and member of the CLACSO network.

It was with great perplexity that we saw the attack by security forces giving a great impression to Marcio Pochmann. Such offensive does not find foundation in a minimally objective analysis of reality.

During his tenure at IPEA, Pochmann extensively renewed the Institute, through various initiatives that address historical interests that have remained in obsolete molds. It held public tenders to expand its technical-administrative body, conferring the status of State career to providing it with autonomy in the face of political indications; opened the program of Chairs that integrated economic and social thinking, or that allowed updating the contributions of names such as Celso Furtado, Darcy Ribeiro, Ruy Mauro Marini, Florestan Fernandes and Milton Santos; created the Directorate of International Relations that internationalized the institution that was strongly separated from two major global issues; established a desk for the country, in Latin America, prioritizing regional integration, or multilateralism in Brazil's active role in the construction of a new, more democratic and plural international order, which can convert the development in one direction and strengthen the role of the Global South in managing the two destinies of the world system.

An economist with an inquisitive curriculum, Pochmann is a forceful critic of the structural inequality that permeates the pattern of neoliberal accumulation that, however, has never dissolved in our country since the 1990s, being deeply skeptical of the narratives that present Brazil as a middle-class country during the first half of the decade. passed

His name to the Presidency of IBGE traces the best of national-popular thought to the management of an important Brazilian public institution. The reaction of the hegemonic media to its name is the expression of sectors that were involved in the coup of 1964 and only its heirs, limiting the scope of redemocratization in the New Republic, articulating the coup of 2016 and wanting a functional State for the internal bourgeoisie and the oligarchies that diminish the possibilities of Brazil, financializing, deindustrializing, and subordinating to a decadent unipolar leadership represented by American imperialism. The fascist threat that surrounds the Brazilian State is the expression of a rhetorical democracy, void of popular support. Restore plurality and debate on models of
The development of accumulation patterns in our country is absolutely fundamental to concretize the legitimacy of our institutions and to avert the risk of political disaster in our near future.

We support the appointment of Márcio Pochmann and wish him a firm and serene gesture.

Adalberto Cardoso (IESP/UERJ)
Adrian Sotelo Valencia (UNAM)
Alexandre Barbosa (ECA/USP)
Alisson Droppa (Diese)
Ana Garcia (Brics Policy Center and IRI/PUC-RJ)
Adalberto Cardoso (IESP/UERJ)
Adrian Sotelo Valencia (UNAM)
Alexandre Barbosa (ECA/USP)
Alisson Droppa (Diese)
Ana Garcia (Brics Policy Center and IRI/PUC-RJ)
Andrea Dias Victor (CNPq)
Andrea Galvão (Unicamp)
Angela Borges (Ucsal – Salvador)
Anita Leocadia Prestes (UFRJ)
Aparecida Neri de Souza (UNICAMP)
Armando Boito (Political Science/UNICAMP)
Atilio Boron (Former Executive Secretary of CLACSO and UBA)
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (UNESP)
Caio Navarro from Toledo (Unicamp)
Carla Curty (ITR-UFRRJ)
Carlos Eduardo Martins (IRID/UFRJ)
Carlos Fidelis Ponte (COC- Fiocruz)
Carlos Savio (UFF)
Carol Proner (IRID/UFRJ)
Dani Balbi (State Representative PC do B)
Danilo Enrico Maturscelli (UFU)
Denise Lobato Gentil (IE/ UFRJ)
Denise Osório Severo (Saúde Coletiva/UnB)
Didimo Castillo (CLACSO Mexico)
Doraci Alves Lopes (PUC-Campinas)
Edemilson Paraná (LUT University, Finland)
Edna Castro (President of SBS and UFPA).
Eleonora Ziller (UFRJ)
Elisio Estanque (University of Coimbra/ FEUC)
Emir Sader (Former Executive Secretary of CLACSO, former President of ALAS and UERJ)
Enéas Gonçalves de Carvalho (UNESP)
Fabricio Pereira da Silva (UNIRIO)
Flavia Lessa (ELA/ICS/UNB)

Angela Borges (Ucsal – Salvador)
Anita Leocadia Prestes (UFRJ)
Aparecida Neri de Souza (UNICAMP)
Armando Boito (Political Science/UNICAMP)
Atilio Boron (Former Executive Secretary of CLACSO and UBA)
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (UNESP)
Caio Navarro from Toledo (Unicamp)
Carla Curty (ITR-UFRRJ)
Carlos Eduardo Martins (IRID/UFRJ)
Carlos Fidelis Ponte (COC- Fiocruz)
Carlos Savio (UFF)
Carol Proner (IRID/UFRJ)
Dani Balbi (State Representative PC do B)
Danilo Enrico Maturscelli (UFU)
Denise Lobato Gentil (IE/ UFRJ)
Denise Osório Severo (Saúde Coletiva/UnB)
Didimo Castillo (CLACSO Mexico)
Doraci Alves Lopes (PUC-Campinas)
Edemilson Paraná (LUT University, Finland)
Edna Castro (President of SBS and UFPA).
Eleonora Ziller (UFRJ)
Elisio Estanque (University of Coimbra/ FEUC)
Emir Sader (Former Executive Secretary of CLACSO, former President of ALAS and UERJ)
Enéas Gonçalves de Carvalho (UNESP)
Fabricio Pereira da Silva (UNIRIO)
Flavia Lessa (ELA/ICS/UNB)

Francis Bogossian (IBEP)
Gabriel Merino (University of La Plata)
Glauber Braga (PSOL Federal Deputy)
Graça Druck (UFBA)
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (UnB)
Isabela Nogueira (IE/UFRJ)
Isaías Albertin de Moraes (IERI/UFU, CIRIEC-Brazil)
Ivana Jinkings (Boitempo)
Jacqueline Samagaia (UFBA)
Jaime León (IE-UFRJ)
Jaime Preciado (Former President of ALAS and the University of Guadalajara)
Jales Dantas da Costa (UnB)
Javier Vadell (PUC-MG)
Joana Coutinho (UFMA)
Joana das Flores Duarte (ISS/UNIFESP)
Jose Marcio Rego (FGV-SP)
Juan Pablo Painceira (Central Bank of Brazil)
Julio Gambina (Rosário University)
Karina Batthyány (Executive Director of CLACSO and UDELAR)
Leandro Morgenfeld (UBA/CONICET)
Lília Tavolaro (ALS/ICS, UnB)
Lincoln by Abreu Penna (IBEP-Modecom)
Luciana Boiteaux (FND/ UFRJ and Vereadora PSOL- RJ)
Lucio Flávio Rodrigues de Almeida (PUC-SP)
Luis César Ribeiro (INCT/Observatorio das Metrópoles UFRJ)
Luiz Filgueiras (UFBA)
Magda Biavaschi (CESIT/Unicamp)
Magda de Almeida Neves
(UFMG)
Marcelo Carcanholo (UFU)
Maria Malta (IE/UFRJ)
Marco Aurélio Santanna (IFCS/UFRJ)
Marcos Pedlowski (LEEA/UENF)
Maria Caramez Carlotto (EPM/UFABC)

Maria Liduina de Oliveira e Silva (ISS/UNIFESP)
Maurício Metri (IRID/UFRJ)
Otávio Velho (National Museum/UFRJ)
Nadia Bambirra (Actress and Director)
Pablo Vommaro (Director of Research at CLACSO and UBA/CONICET)
Patricia Vieira Tropia (UFU)
Paulo de Tarso Presgrave Leite (FEA USP)
Paulo Henrique Martins (Former President of ALAS and UFPE)
Pedro Aguiar (UFF)
Pedro Amaral (PUC-RJ)
Pedro Paulo Bastos (IE/Unicamp)
Raphael Padula (IRID/UFRJ)
Renato Cabral Ramos (National Museum/UFRJ)
Ricardo Alemao Abreu (Fundação Grabois)
Ricardo Antunes (Sociology/UNICAMP)
Ricardo Festi (UnB)
Ricardo Zortea (IE/UFRJ)
Roberta Traspadini (UNILA)
Roberto Amaral (Former Minister of Science and Technology of Brazil)
Roberto Menezes Goulart (IREL/UNB)
Roberto Leher (Ex-Reitor UFRJ)
Rosa Freire D'Aguiar (Celso Furtado Center)
Roseli by Fátima Corteletti (UFCG/TDEPP)
Saulo Pinto (DECON/UFMA)
Sedi Hirano (USP)
Simone Wolff (State University of Londrina/UEL)
Susana Castro (IFCS/UFRJ)
Vitor Iorio (IRID/UFRJ)
Wanderley de Souza (UFRJ)
Wilson Vieira (IE/UFRJ and Celso Furtado Center)
Zacarias Gama (UERJ)

July 31, 2023
Various CLACSO Working Groups

This statement expresses the position of Various CLACSO Working Groups and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.