Jorge Castañeda, the renown Mexican intellectual, in a talk held on occasion of his visit to Santo Domingo to participate in the National Book Fair, said that Latin America must put aside the orthodox neoliberal economic model. He advocated for more free and participatory democracy, and for the regulating of speculative capitals. He also favors that the states guarantee social rights. He favored center leftist governments that would be more in tune to the needs of the continent that he described as one of enormous inequalities, enormous poverty, and enormous wasted opportunities.
