From its origins Latin America has faced diverse adversities imposed internationally as well as nationally. In light of this economic, political and social situation, various academics who espouse a critical view of conventional theoretical discourse as well as reality, have made analytical and theoretical efforts to raise alternatives to the process of social, economic, political and environmental deterioration, which contribute to rethinking the disadvantageous position of the region, and hopefully overcoming this position, taking advantage of the enormous social potential and natural resources.
Academics such as Theotonio Dos Santos, who contributed, along with other social scientists, to broadening the vision to create better conditions in Latin America's social life, has opened a horizon to explore alternatives for the region to create its own future. Theotonio Dos Santos, who has been a close collaborator of www.olafinanciera.unam.mx, has recently died, but his thought remains very alive.
Another outstanding academic who also deepened and heightened reflexive criticism for decades, and who also was a close collaborator of www.olafinanciera.unam.mx, Samuel Lichtensztejn, has also recently died and left us fruitful thought to discuss and to deepen, always with the objective of creating better living conditions for the populations of Latin America. In this issue in remembrance and homage to Samuel Lichtensztejn, a contribution that focuses on the problems of Latin America is presented in the Classics section.
As the economic uncertainty at a planetary level is accentuated, the populations of the weakest countries bear the brunt, although without doubt that the populations of the so-called developed countries also suffer from harmful effects. However, in period after period only the financial system achieves high profits, largely at the expense of society as a whole. In this context, the world of work faces new challenges that undermine their wages and work conditions. Within this context of constant danger of worsening decomposition, Alain Parguez, raises in number 29 of www.olafinanciera.unam.mx the issue of how to face this dangerous destroyer, through an alternative that gives certainty to the global society through the inclusion of all social sectors so they can be incorporated into material and immaterial work, truly productive and playful, to be able to perform as social subjects. But this can only begin under the principle of the control and submission of the, until now, destructive global financial system. In this perspective theoretical orientations that have emanated from the Latin American context are taken up in order to approach the current reality and propose our own alternatives to face this destructive tsunami that is the global financial system.
The ECLAC's thinking regarding dependence and the general idea of development have their counterpart in the manuals and textbooks of the mainstream, which have served only to reproduce a social life ever more difficult and inequitable. Within this perspective, central aspects of the Mexican economy are analyzed, as is the case of agriculture in the context of NAFTA, which has not been of any benefit to the sector, and which today is being renegotiated. Alternative sin this sector should be taken more seriously, as with the entire Mexican economy.
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