Blog

1.”Today, we are witnessing with sadness the disaster the wo…

1.”Today, we are witnessing with sadness the disaster the world has been led to by the irrational and unsustainable production and consumption system of capitalism, decades of an unjust international order and the implementation of ruthless and rampant neoliberalism, which has widened inequalities and sacrificed the right of peoples to development. Unlike excluding neoliberalism, which puts aside and discards millions of human beings and condemns them to survive on the leftovers from the banquet of the richest one percent, the COVID-19 virus does not discriminate between them, but its devastating economic and social effects shall be lethal among the most vulnerable and those with lower incomes, whether they live in the underdeveloped world or in the pockets of poverty of big industrial cities.” SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA MIGUEL DÍAZ-CANEL BERMÚDEZ AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 75TH SESSION OF THE UNGA. Critique this passage of the Cuban president’s speech from the perspective of one of the major theoretical approaches we studied (realism, liberalism, economic structuralism, or constructivism.