Reflections

– About a globalization focused on the human person and not on money
– About existential choices
– About the crucial role that UNASUR playsAbout a globalization focused on the human person and not on money

It’s true, globalization saved many people from misery, but it condemned many others to die from hunger, because with this economic system it becomes selective. The globalization that the Church thinks of does not look like a sphere in which every point is equidistant from the center and in which, therefore, the particularity of peoples is lost. It is, rather, a polyhedron, with its different facets, in which each nation keeps its own culture, language, religion, identity. The present “spherical” economic globalization, especially the financial, produces one thought, a weak thought. And the human person is no longer at its center but only money.

Pope Francis

About existential choices

Each man has to choose, in the course of his brief life, between endless striving and wise resignation, between the delights of disorder and those of stability.

Marguerite Yourcenar
About the crucial role that UNASUR plays

The role of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) was crucial during Bolivia’s political crisis, in 2008, and between Colombia and Venezuela, in 2010, same as its defense of democracy in Honduras, in 2009, Ecuador, in 2010 and in Paraguay, in 2012. In the cases in which South America was involved, the role of United States was much less relevant than in the past.

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian