Virtual Seminar – World economy reconfiguration – impacts and challenges for Latin America an the Caribbean
International Seminar La reconfiguración de la economía mundial | 9–13 November 2026 Convened by: IIEc-UNAM · CLACSO · REDEM · SEPLA La reconfiguración de la economía para América Latina y el Caribe International Seminar · Virtual sessions 9–13 November 2026 10 panels · 46 presentations 59 speakers from 13 countries Mornings: 09:00–12:00 h (central Mexico time) / 12:00–15:00 h (Buenos Aires time) Afternoons: 13:00–16:00 h (central Mexico time) / 16:00–19:00 h (Buenos Aires time) Watch the live stream 5days 10panels 46presentations 59speakers 13countries The world economy is going through a rapid reconfiguration: inter-imperial rivalry, the fragmentation of global production chains, the financial offensive and the new wars of capital condemn Latin America and the Caribbean to renewed forms of dependence and dispossession. How can we understand this crisis and, above all, how can we confront it? With this purpose, the international seminar La reconfiguración de la economía mundial. Implicaciones para América Latina y el Caribe will bring together, over five virtual days, 46 presentations by 59 researchers from 13 countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. The program covers the major axes of the contemporary debate in critical political economy: the crisis of world capitalism and the need for…
Proposal for the SEPLA Board of Directors 2026-2029
SEPLA colleagues: We are pleased to communicate with you regarding the electoral process we began last year. Based on the 2025 collective decision-making process, the Society of Political Economy and Critical Thought of Our America (SEPLA) created various spaces for exchange, debate, and interventions. In summary, the Electoral Board (EB) received proposals and presented the following list of members for the Board of Directors (BD) 2026-2029, comprising 6 countries, including full members and alternates, with gender parity: Full members President: José Luis Rodríguez (Cuba) Vice President: Antonio Elías (Uruguay) Secretary: Marina Gouvea (Brazil) Alternates Carolina Jiménez (Colombia) Julio Gambina (Argentina) Josefina Morales (Mexico) Additionally, the EB consulted the following list of members for the 2026-2029 period: Uruguay: Alfredo Falero (full member) Karina Sosa (alternate) Bolivia: Gonzalo Gosalvez S. (full member) María Luisa Auza (alternate) Colombia: José Puello Socarrás (full member) Camila Galindo (alternate) Argentina: Lucas Castiglioni (principal) Gabriela Roffinelli (alternate) Mexico: Mateo Crossa (principal) Armando Negrete (alternate) Brazil: Rodrigo Borges (principal) Aliné Fae Stocco (alternate) Paraguay: Alhelí González Cáceres (principal) Alan Fretez (alternate) Venezuela: Camilo Rivero (principal) José Sojo (alternate) Chile: Paula Vidal (principal) …
NOTE – REPUDIATION OF THE INVASION OF VENEZUELA
In the early hours of this January 3, 2026, the United States of America cowardly bombed the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in a new act of imperialist aggression, with the objective of consummating the coup d'état that they have been attempting to promote in that country for decades, with the central goal of the control of Venezuelan oil and natural gas by the industry. The Latin American and Caribbean Society of Political Economy and Critical Thinking (SEPLA) denounces and energetically rejects the criminal aggressions perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela, which have now reached a new level with this military aggression and with the announcement, by Donald Trump, of the illegal kidnapping of the constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the First Lady, Cilia Flores. The bombing early this morning represents the culminating point of the aggressive escalation developed over the last semester, marked by the mobilization of warships by the United States, the explosion of vessels on the Venezuelan coast, and direct corsair attacks aimed at the kidnapping of Venezuelan oil tankers, in flagrant violation of International Law. By militarily attacking localities —including densely populated areas of the city of Caracas and the…