La Casa de la Cultura Popular los Libertadores, lugar de fortalecimiento de formas de saber y hacer de otro modo

Abstract

In the mid-20th century, the United States became the head of the post-war New World Order. In this way, as the new world power, the United States begins to develop the new geopolitical project that would be carried out in all the nations of the planet: development. The aims of this project went beyond mere economic intervention and sought the homogenization of the world population under the parameters of western modernity. The project promised economic and social progress, technological advances, industrialization and urbanization in all areas of the world. Five decades have passed since development started as a political, economic and social intervention project and its promises to overcome poverty, economic development and improve the quality of life have not been fulfilled. On the contrary, this development model has unleashed a crisis that cuts across the political, the economic, the social and the cultural. The globalization of the economy and the growing power of financial capital have exacerbated the political crisis as political institutions are inefficient in controlling that power. On the other hand, the socio-cultural crisis is reflected in the fragmentation of cultural identities, the lack of social cohesion, the social and political exclusion of large sectors of society, and the impoverishment of many others (Neef, 1993). This crisis has one more element, the environmental crisis that has been generated by the patterns of exploitation of natural resources.