In the opinion of one of its participants, Matias Capeluto, president of the Red Party for Argentina, the event will allow us to build a strategy and an action plan to be able to make sovereign decisions from the global South, which “above all make it possible to continue being a zone of peace.” “in such turbulent times.”
For Capeluto, the meeting will take place at decisive moments when the “Reactionary International” is trying to impose its political and economic agenda throughout the world and specifically in his country.
The meeting will take place on the 29th and 30th of this month in Havana, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the declaration and program of action on the establishment of a New International Economic Order, approved by the General Assembly of the Nations. United on May 1, 1974.
In the opinion of Ndongo Samba, former advisor to the Presidency of Senegal and guest at the congress, 50 years after the launch of the program, it is important to learn from the past and update this agenda in an era marked by multipolarity, but also by militarism and devastation. growing ecological.
The specialist will reflect in the forum on how the Global South can achieve economic and monetary sovereignty for the benefit of its people, with less dependence on the North.
For her part, the vice minister of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, Cristina Reis, will speak about the ecological transformation plan of her portfolio, which aims to generate jobs and income, environmental and climate justice, as well as reduce gender and race inequalities. , ethnic and territorial in the South American giant.
The project seeks to increase economic activities with knowledge and technology to decarbonize, taking advantage of the economic advantages of the country and the region.
In the opinion of the Minister of Finance of Honduras, Marlon Ochoa, the congress will be a pertinent scenario to discuss how to achieve an economy that works for the people and build an articulation that allows future crises to protect the poorest first.
According to Ochoa, the success of the International Economic Order has been to make people believe that there is no alternative to the neoliberal model, that the economy is an exact science, with its formulas, models, projections and infallible recipes.
More than four decades after its application, he noted, the rich are getting richer and are exempt from the effect of crises, pandemics, wars and the collapse of financial markets.
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