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URPE Webinar: The Empire Strikes Back: US Hegemony and the Latin American Far Right

November 20, 2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
We are happy to announce the fourth webinar in the URPE Webinar Series! The series is a platform to further regular discussion on issues of contemporary political economics within and beyond academia. This webinar is a talk by Matías Vernango titled “The Empire Strikes Back: US Hegemony and the Latin American Far Right”. 

 

Webinars will be hosted over Zoom and streamed on YouTube. URPE members are encouraged to join via Zoom and participate in a Q&A with the speaker after his talk. We hope to see many of you there, and welcome suggestions on topics for future webinars.

Topic: The Empire Strikes Back: US Hegemony and the Latin American Far Right

Speaker: Matías Vernango

Time: Friday 20th November 11-12:30 eastern time

Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4318 6430

Zoom Password: 613310

About the speaker:

Matías Vernengo is Professor at Bucknell University, and the Director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP). He specializes in macroeconomic issues for developing countries, in particular Latin America, international political economy and the history of economic thought. He has served as a Consultant with UNCTAD, ILO, UNDP and ECLAC. He is the emritus founding co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE), and the author of Dollar Hegemony: Past, Present, and Future (2024) and Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the 21st Century (2017) among other books.

 

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