For a respectful, ethical and proactive campaign
Over the years, CLACSO has cultivated respect for the diversity of ideas that challenge hegemonic thought. In this spirit, the ongoing electoral process to renew the Executive Board of our network provides yet another opportunity for all candidates to strengthen Latin American and Caribbean thought and its projections in the current regional and global context.
Contrary to this common aspiration, there has been a circulation of statements, almost all of them apocryphal, that question one of the candidacies, without valid grounds and despite the fact that the CLACSO Steering Committee has clearly clarified the situations that are even referred to as 'crimes'.
A smear campaign, alien to the truly democratic political culture sought by our academic community, not only damages the image of one of the candidates, but also that of the people and groups promoting the three candidacies presented, and that of CLACSO in a broader sense, since it undermines its essence as a community of thought and commitment to the transformation of our societies.
Given this situation:
- We call on all candidates to issue an explicit statement rejecting these types of actions and any attempt to create a toxic climate in the ongoing electoral process, as we have no doubt that they are driven by a genuine desire to strengthen one of the few spaces that promotes and sustains critical thinking in the region.
- We urge everyone to take advantage of this process to engage in high-level debate on proposals for the institution and for our region, in these critical times that demand intellectual clarity and ethical commitment to overcome the onslaught of the far right.
March 26th 2025
CLACSO Working Groups
Feminisms, resistance and emancipation
Bodies, territories and resistances
Violence in Central America
Epistemologies of the South
What job for what future?
Anti-patriarchal struggles, families, gender, diversities and citizenship
Network of gender, feminisms and memories
Emancipatory practices, common goods, and decolonial alter-global methodologies
Just transitions and care for our common home
Working Group on Marxist Studies in Public Administration (ESAP-Colombia)
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned 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.
