Imagina Latin America - The cost of inequality: Lessons and warnings from Latin America for the world

Imagina Latinoamérica (Imagine Latin America) is a series of 10 digital and face-to-face talks, in collaboration with Open Society Foundations and with the support of CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina-, that will be held from June 2022 to January 2023. This talks will be available at our web page and on social media channels of Hay Festival and El País, media partner of the project.

Inequality in Latin America has been a constant throughout history: gaps in income distribution; inequalities in access to goods and services because of differences of origin, or working or social condition; or growing economic divergences between strata, sectors or classes. All these have caused crises in the region and created great social discontent, as well as the rise of populism. The sociologist and journalist Farid Kahhat, author of El eterno retorno; the economist Carlos Paredes Lanatta, who has written Resilientes pero no indolentes. Reflexiones sobre la crisis peruana; and the academic Natalia Sobrevilla, author of Independencia, will talk to the political analyst Gonzalo Banda.