Philosopher and Law Lecturer at Birkbeck University in London, Óscar Guardiola-Rivera received the 2000 National Essay Prize at the Bogota International Book Fair for La otra guerra: el derecho como continuación del conflicto y lenguaje de la paz. He is also the author of El fin del capitalismo and will now present his latest work, What if Latin America Ruled the World? a work that looks at the history of the region and analyses the ‘latinamericanisation’ of the USA and the growing international influence of Latin America.