The new right: What challenges does it pose for progressive movements in Latin America and the Caribbean?

 The new right: What challenges does it pose for progressive movements in Latin America and the Caribbean?

On Wednesday, September 6, at 3:00 PM Chile, Argentina and Uruguay time (UTC-15), a new program from the fourth season of InfoCLACSO will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

The Forum «Memory and Human Rights«, from September 4th to 9th in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile, It seeks to bring into dialogue members of the Latin American and Caribbean academy, movements, organizations and social collectives already making decisions about public policies around the reflection and understanding of the proposals, capacities, powers and pending agendas fifty years after the coup d'état of September 11, 1973 in Chile.

-Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of CLACSO

-Tomás Torres, PhD in Sociology and Coordinator of the Diploma in Latin American Critical Thought at the University of Chile

Claudio Katz, Argentine economist and professor, human rights activist

Melina Vázquez, Researcher and lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. Coordinator of the Working Group on Childhoods and Youth.

Magdalena Rauch, from the CLACSO Training Directorate


Wednesday's program covers one of the main themes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue which 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, Virginia Sueldo 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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