América latina. Entre la nueva realidad y las viejas desigualdades

Abstract

Dialogue among those of us who do academic life, share thoughts and actions, is always an exercise in spiritual recreation, rather than qualifying ourselves intellectually, it compromises our understanding of the common ethos. With this intention, the reflections of this work are proposed. Its objective is to recognize the new meanings that define contemporary reality in the context of the global pandemic of COVID-19, with an analytical emphasis on Latin America, its inequalities and the effects on health and education. Based on Alvarez, (2020), Bonilla-Molina (2018), Casanova (2020), Foucault (2002), Salazar (2020), UNESCO (2020), a documentary-hermeneutical methodological approach was developed. The results of the hermeneusis reveal that by the end of 2020 it is possible to identify global reconfigurations that, mediated by the pandemic, envision the construction of a new world order of consolidation of techno-financial capitalism, information and communication technologies take over the social relations, substituting, subordinating, influencing, conditioning, creating the necessary subjectivity to the new normal, while confirming a more severe impact of the pandemic in the most vulnerable sectors of the population, the deepening of social inequalities, the dismantling of the public function and the progressive absence of the State in the attention of collective problems, with health and education being two of the most affected sectors.   Keywords: new normal; COVID-19; Latin America; new world order; health; education.