The promotion of long-term regional thinking is an imperative for Latin America that can't be put off, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Michael Shifter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, agreed in the prologue of the document Global Trends and Latin America's Future, by Chilean Sergio Bitar, which will be presented this Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at the Mexican Embassy in Santiago, Chile.
Along with the author and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the presentation will be attended by the Ambassador of Mexico in Chile, Otto Granados, and the Director of ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), Jorge Máttar.
The document written by Bitar-Director of the Global Trends and Latin America's Future program at the Inter-American Dialogue, and president of the Foundation for Democracy-is part of ECLAC's Public Management series.
In the document, the author details the main dilemmas and challenges facing Latin American countries amid these global transformations. He also reflects on the region's present and future positioning and explores possible strategies for modifying it.
The English edition of this text was presented last November by the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C., and can be consulted on its Web site.
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