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Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 | Jan Martínez Ahrens, Jaime Saavedra and Alberto Vergara, in conversation with Patricia del Río

2023-11-11T15:13:40.457Z

Highlights: Jan Martínez Ahrens, Jaime Saavedra, and political scientist Alberto Vergara talk with journalist Patricia del Río. They discuss the widespread social discontent in Latin America due to the failure of the republican project in the region. The focus of the book Defrauded Republics is the structural causes of this discontent, citizen insecurity, insufficient health and education services, economic factors, segregation to racism or corruption, and uses elements of popular culture to exemplify or build his argument.


A talk about the widespread social discontent in Latin America due to the failure of the republican project throughout the region


Jan Martínez Ahrens, director of EL PAÍSAmerica, Jaime Saavedra, director of Human Development for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank and former Minister of Education of Peru, and political scientist Alberto Vergara talk with journalist Patricia del Río about the widespread social discontent in Latin America due to the failure of the republican project in the region. That is the focus of the book Defrauded Republics, in which Alberto Vergara delves into the structural causes of this discontent, citizen insecurity, insufficient health and education services, economic factors, segregation to racism or corruption, and uses elements of popular culture to exemplify or build his argument: a journey that goes from films such as Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón, or La historia oficial, by Luis Puenzo, to the songs of Caetano Veloso.

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Source: elparis

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