GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY

Abstract

"Globalization is a concept used to describe a wide range of social, political and economic phenomenons, either as cause or as result, phenomena that without an ideological or analytic frame can lead to the loss of meaning and to confusing the objective for which it is used," Jorge Chen Carpentier, sociologist and Mexican diplomat, tells us. In this essay under his authorship he analyzes this central problem of our time, as well as its effects upon Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that is not completely condemned to internal crises, but neither can hope that the required changes will arise spontaneously from greater external exchange.