Democracy for the many or democracy for the few?

 Democracy for the many or democracy for the few?

On Wednesday, May 15, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

-Karina Batthyány , Executive Director of CLACSO


-Elections in Panama. Lawyer José Raúl Mulino, candidate of the conservative alliance Save Panama, emerged victorious in the presidential elections in the Central American country on Sunday, May 5. Azael Carrera Hernández , a Panamanian sociologist and researcher, and member of the CLACSO Steering Committee, comments on the results and perspectives.


-Dominican Republic, 40 years after the 1984 massacre. Interview with Amaurys Pérez Vargas , historian and sociologist, professor at the Schools of Sociology and History of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and member of the CLACSO Network.


-On Sunday, April 21, elections were held for the Basque Parliament to elect the 75 members of the 13th legislature of the Basque Country. Analysis by Elena Beloki , head of international affairs at the Iratzar Foundation.


Furthermore:
-Alejandra Picco, from the Cuesta Duarte Institute of the PIT-CNT of Uruguay, in the Forum: Inequalities in Latin America: tensions, debates and proposals, at UDELAR in Montevideo.

– Lucía Marina Dos Santos , State Deputy for Rio de Janeiro of the MST, at the Forum: The New Dynamics of South-South Relations and the Challenges of Latin American Integration , at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.


The program for Wednesday, May 15th, covers one of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “ Democracy, Human Rights and Peace ”.


She drives: Gustavo Lema, Director of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue, Noelia Croci, Agustina Castaños and Ángel Dávila
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Marcelo Giardino, Christian Iturricha and Camila Pastor


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.


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