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Argentine sociologist (born 1943) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atilio Borón is an Argentine Marxist sociologist.[1]
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Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | July 1, 1943
Occupation | Sociologist |
Atilio Borón received a PhD from Harvard University.[2]
He worked as a Professor of Political Science at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute and at the University of Buenos Aires.[3] He also served as Secretary General of CLACSO, an academic umbrella body for Latin America.[4] In 2005, he signed the World Social Forum's Porto Alegre Manifesto.
At the Transnational Institute, he serves as Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of the New Politics project.[4] He also serves as director of the Center for European and Latin American Research in Buenos Aires.[3] He also writes a column in a national Argentinian newspaper.[2]
He has called the United States a "terrorist threat to world peace".[5] He has also been critical of Israel's systemic racism.[2] He has voiced his disapproval of the American handling of Julian Assange.[5] Borón has also condemned Barack Obama for ordering the murder of Muammar Gaddafi.[6]
In 2009 he received the International José Martí Prize from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.[7]
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