International forum workshop discusses today’s world economic order

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 2 (ACN) The world economic order and the challenges facing development today in Latin America, the Caribbean and Cuba will be on the table today in the of the training workshops of the “International Forum on Activism and Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean 65 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution”, organized in Havana by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

The program also includes round-table discussions, talks, book presentations, seminars and meetings with social movements with the participation of researchers, public policymakers, and members of various organizations, as well as lectures by experts from the University of Havana's International Economics Research Center (CIEI) and the World Economy Research Center (CIEM).

The workshop is designed to analyze the main dimensions of the current world economic order (trade, finances, energy, and the environment) as part of what CIEM director Ramón Pichs described as “a necessary debate 40 years after the publication of Fidel Castro’s book La crisis económica y social del mundo and 50 years after the United Nations adopted the “Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order”.

Other training workshops will address topics such as “Cuba-US Relations: Prospects and Challenges”, “José Martí. Identity, democracy, decolonization and cultural war”, and “Social policies in the Cuban context: A dialogue between academia and politics”.