Brazil-. The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcenas, today welcomed the meeting that the Puebla Group is holding in Rio de Janeiro to promote its solidarity-based development model.
In a message broadcast on the social network Twitter, Bárcenas stressed the importance of the meeting since it has as its main objective the above model, based on equality and sustainability, he said.
The headline described the organization’s work in favor of progressive development design to achieve a transition from a culture of privilege to a culture of equality in the region.
This requires that we look at equality as a political and economic project, because inequality conspires against development, he stressed.
“Inequality threatens the efficiency of development, which is why we need to build alternative paths that show us projects of society where the changes are profound, structural, in the dynamics of production and consumption,” said Bárcenas.
In this sense, he invited an in-depth examination of the Latin American and Caribbean problems, while emphasizing the importance of the role of the state in these processes.
The 70-year-old Mexican diplomat drew attention to the political processes in Latin America and the Caribbean, and her relationship with progressive models focused on changing the pattern of development based on proposals for gender equality, environmental sustainability, industrialization, etc
Bárcenas also welcomed several founders of the Puebla Group, whom he called visionaries for the future of the left in the region.
The group’s meeting in Rio de Janeiro is the last international event that Bárcenas will attend as director of ECLAC, after 14 years at the helm of this organization, which is funded by the United Nations Organization for the Promotion of Economic and Social Development in the United Nations is region dependent.