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Fernando Arancón, Marcela Meléndez and Carlos Alberto Patiño in conversation with María Martín

Getting up to speed with geopolitics

Cartagena 2026, 

About a quarter of a century ago, Zygmunt Bauman defined our time as one of “liquidity”. Since then, our structures have only continued to change, with a geopolitical spectrum that is more volatile than ever: the rise of autocratic politics, the invasion of Ukraine, the future of Gaza after the ceasefire, the US incursions in Colombian and Venezuelan waters… Talking about all this will be Fernando Arancón, Director of the digital media outlet El orden mundial; Marcela Meléndez, a World Bank economist; and Carlos Alberto Patiño, author of La Guerra Global Invisible. Ucrania, el mundo y el retorno de los imperios, together with journalist María Martín.

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Fernando Arancón, Marcela Meléndez and Carlos Alberto Patiño in conversation with María Martín