Abstract
Forty years after its foundation in Oaxtepec , Morelos, Mexico , the Latin American Peace Research Council (CLAIP) has witnessed a deep transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) . During the Eighties, the military regimes gradually gave way to democratically elected governments . However, the elites that had initially supported military coups adapted to emerging social and political conditions and kept their economic control in the majority of the countries in LAC. Thus, LAC is still the most unequal region in the world, even if wealth in other regions that opened up to the neoliberal model has also been concentrated into a few hands (USA, China, Russia , and South Korea ).
Prof. Dr. Úrsula Oswald Spring, research professor, at the Centre for Regional Multidisiciplinary Research (CRIM) in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She was President of IPRA (1998–2000) and has been Secretary General of IPRA (2016–2018) and CLAIP (2002–2005). Email: uoswald@gmail.com.
Dr. Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald, associate professor at the Centre for Regional Multidisiciplinary Research (CRIM) in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is Secretary General of CLAIP (2017–2019) and member of IPRA since 2000. Email: sesohi@hotmail.com.
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Bill Gates (USA; Microsoft co-founder: US$75,000 million); Amancio Ortega (Spain; Zara founder and Inditex owner: US$67,000 million): Warren Buffett (USA, main shareholder at Berkshire Hathaway: US$60,800 million); Carlos Slim Helú (Mexico, owner of Grupo Carso: US$50,000 million); Jeff Bezos (USA, Amazon founder and executive director: US$45,200 million); Mark Zuckerberg (USA, Facebook co-founder and CEO: US$44,600 million); Larry Ellison (USA, Oracle co-founder and CEO: US$43,600 million); Michael Bloomberg (USA, Bloomberg LP owner: US$40,000 million). Source: Forbes/Oxfam, January 2017. Financial speculation might change the order of the list, but these men are at the top of economic and thus political power.
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Oswald Spring, Ú., Serrano Oswald, S.E. (2018). Introductory Remarks. CLAIP in the Face of the Challenges of Peace and Security in the 21st Century. In: Oswald Spring, Ú., Serrano Oswald, S. (eds) Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73808-6_1
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