ECLAC chief says COVID-19 panemic puts Caribbean, Latin America at ‘civilising crossroads’

ECLAC chief says COVID-19 panemic puts Caribbean, Latin America at 'civilising crossroads'

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) — Executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena says the COVID-19 pandemic has put the region at what she describes as “a civilising crossroads”.

“Either we return to a globalisation of concentration that is authoritarian and to the same institutional design, or we build a different future,” said Bárcena during a virtual seminar organised by Carolina Foundation of Spain.

ECLAC said that the event, entitled ‘Multilateral Action in Ibero-America in the Face of COVID-19’, was moderated by Cristina Gallach, the Spanish Government’s state secretary for foreign affairs […]

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