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 4 to 9 in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile, seeks to bring together members of Latin American and Caribbean academia, movements, organizations and social collectives already involved in public policy decisions, to reflect on and understand the proposals, capacities, potential 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 program in Latin American critical thought at the University of Chile

– Claudio Katz, Argentine economist and professor, human rights activist

– Melina Vázquez, researcher and professor 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 Department


This Wednesday's program covers one of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: " Democracy, human rights and peace ".


Hosted by: 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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