TENDENCIAS EN EDUCACIÓN
Letter from the President of Education International Latin America Regional Committee HUGO YASKY Hugo Yasky is an Argentinian teacher, union leader and politician. He is the president of the Regional Committee of the Education International Latin America and national deputy for the Province of Buenos Aires. Hugo Yasky is General Secretary of the Workers Central of Argentina (CTA) and former Secretary General of the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA).
Instead of asking what the pandemic will do to humanity, the most appropriate question seems to be, "What will we do about the pandemic?" This refers to both to matters related to work, jobs and income and to education systems. These are the two major issues addressed by this study, and this general question provides the key to articulating its conclusions with proposals for action. The global health crisis generated by COVID-19 may sharpen the outlines of existing inequalities. In addition, it will be able to expose the irrationalities that more than forty years of neoliberalism has installed as if they were common sense, although reverting these will take more than a virus. In increasingly unequal societies such as those mass-produced by this system not even death makes us equal. As the Uruguayan singer Alfredo Zitarrosa said, "You may die; that's a question of health. But you wouldn't want to know what a coffin costs.” The context, both economic and educational, prior to the pandemic is central to understanding the effects caused in each of the scenarios in which it occurred. It is not the same to deal with its effects in economically homogeneous societies with high levels of employment registered,
