Italian-American economist Mariana Mazzucato is scheduled to meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro this Monday. She proposes that the State recover the initiative in economic policy, promoting projects to solve specific problems.

The proposal is not to contrast the public and private sectors, but to ensure that they complement each other with a leading, active State, as she explains in an interview with EL PAÍS. “I agree that capitalism is destructive, but we cannot stop at criticizing it. How do we solve it?,” she said.