Thématique N°3

Globalisation and Human Rights – Perspectives and Strategies from a Latin American Point of View, by Abraham Magendzo

In Latin America, globalisation unveils itself as conflicting and full of contradictions. In fact, we are faced with an extremely complex issue that we are unable to address in terms of good and evil, advantages and disadvantages, proper or improper or reasonable or irrational. What does seem indisputable is that we cannot detach ourselves from this issue, which is arriving in massive waves with the development of means of communication which have affected industries, rural areas, services, communications and culture. Globalisation is also arriving in massive waves due to the development of transnational production system, which is the direction in which we have headed and even in which we participate actively, the opening of domestic and foreign markets, free trade treaties, regional agreements and the massive arrival of cultural products.

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