Introduction and context

Our America is a wonderful continent, although it continues to be traversed from north to south by those inequalities that we began to know well before learning about them from our studies in schools.

Our territories and the communities that make them up and have always animated them reflect the sad primacy of the most unequal Region in the world.

El Economy and Development Report published in October 2022 by CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, clearly highlights that, despite the enormous wealth of resources and “Although economic and social progress has been achieved in recent decades, the challenge of achieving a better distribution of income, wealth and also educational and employment opportunities to which Latin Americans and the Caribbean have access remains.

Always at the end of 2022, with his Social Panorama, ECLAC could not but confirm the increase in rates and gaps produced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, which since the first year of the outbreak had caused it to reveal a setback of almost three decades; a few months later, with the Conclusions of the Sixth Forum on Sustainable Development confirmed the data from another point of view: it revealed to us that although we have covered half the time to implement the 2030 Agenda, only 24,6% of the SDGs will be achieved with the current trend, while almost half of them (48,4%) the trend is correct but not enough to reach them; unfortunately in 27,0% of the SDGs there is regression.

If, on the one hand, more comforting data is appearing on the reactivation or tools and conditions have been created for an economic and social relaunch, as we can see with the accelerator initiatives proposed by ECLAC itself, the outstanding investment funds of the EU-CELAC Summit and the opportunities generated by the historic UN Resolution on the Social Economy, there is still no glimpse of a new paradigm or development model.