Four Cubans Among the 50 Most Influential Latin-American Intellectuals of 2014

Four Cubans Among the 50 Most Influential Latin-American Intellectuals
of 2014 / 14ymedio
Posted on November 20, 2014
14YMEDIO, Havana/November 19, 2014

The Spanish political magazine Esglobal has included four Cubans in its
list of 50 most influential Latin American intellectuals of 2014
published this Wednesday: historian and essayist Rafael Rojas, economist
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh,
blogger and manager of 14ymedio Yoani Sanchez, and the writer Leonardo
Padura.

The ranking, developed in collaboration with the Latin-American Faculty
of Social Sciences (FLASCO), has as its objective "highlighting the
enormous talent and variety of viewpoints that are generated in Spanish
and Portuguese, as languages capable of offering alternatives to the
hegemonic English in the contemporary world's dissemination.

To select the intellectuals, the magazine used some basic criteria, like
choosing living and active people who perform at least part of their
work in Spanish or Portuguese with influence in the Latin-American or
international setting.

Among the other intellectuals chosen by Esglobal are Chilean writer
Isabel Allende, Pope Francis, Mexican economist Jorge Castaneda, Spanish
sociologist Manuel Castells, Mexican activist and journalist Javier
Sicilia and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa.

Translated by MLK

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