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Contents

Introduction

Presentation of the Agenda, José María VIGIL, Panama, Panama ....................................................8

Introduction, Pedro CASALDÁLIGA & José Maria VIGIL, São Félix do Araguaia, MG, Brazil .....................10

Martyrology Anniversaries of 2016 ..........................................................................................12

I. SEEING Poverty and inequality in Latin America, Guillermo Fernández y Mónica Gómez, Cáritas, Madrid, Spain ..14

And the rest 99%?, Alfredo TORO HARDY, Caracas, Venezuela .........................................................17

Inequality, environmental crisis and climate change, Silvia RIBEIRO y Grupo ETC, Mexico ................18

Analysis of the current situation: organizational challenges, João Pedro STÉDILE, São Paulo, SP, Brazil .20

For 2100: 25 billions habitants, Steve CONNOR, The Independent .................................................22

Showing carcinogenic transgenic crops in Latin America, Lucía SEPÚLVEDA, Santigo, Chile ..............23

TTIP: The dictatorship of multinationals, Javier LEZAOLA, eldiario.es ............................................24

In the Afrodescendant Decade, EDUCAFRO, São Paulo, SP, Brazil ...................................................25

II. JUDGING / DREAMINGInequality and Property. Who establishes their meaning, Ivone GEBARA, Camaragibe, PE, Brazil ......26

To throw light on the analysis .................................................................................................28

Inequality and property: from nobility to burgeoisie, Frei BETTO, São Paulo SP, Brazil ....................29

Private property and inequality, João Pedro STÉDILE, São Paulo SP, Brazil ......................................30

Inequality in human history, Alfredo GONÇALVES, São Paulo SP, Brazil ...........................................32

«Reading Guide» Piketty’s book, Nicolau João BAKKER, Diadema SP, Brazil ....................................34

Equality - in theory a problem, in practice a challenge, Luis RAZETO, Santiago, Chile .....................36

Inequality from a cosmopolitan perspective, Juan A. FERNÁNDEZ MANZANO, Madrid, Spain ..............38

Premio Antonio Montesinos al gesto profético en defensa de los DDHH (Spanish) .......................40

2016: U.N. International Year of camelids and of pulseses ...............................................................41

The biblical inequality, Gonzalo DE LA TORRE, Quibdó, Chocó, Colombia ..........................................60

Jesus, the defending prophet of the lowest, José Antonio PAGOLA, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain 72

Private property, source of inequalities in the Utopias, Juan José TAMAYO, Madrid, Spain ...............84

From the impossible dream, to the possible future, David MOLINEAUX, Santiago de Chile ................98

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Inequality and ecology: 9 investigators, Enrique MARROQUÍN, México DF, Mexico .......................... 110

Moral inequality ans social inequality, Teresa FORCADES, Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain .... 122

An unsustainable model, Yayo HERRERO, Madrid, Spain .............................................................. 136

Shocking experience: encounter with José Mujica, Leonardo BOFF, Petrópolis RJ, Brazil ................ 148

He donated 90% of his salary, José MUJICA, Montevideo, Uruguay .............................................. 155

Hot Points

Homeless people, vacant houses, Fernando GUZMÁN, Buenos Aires, Argentina ............................... 162

1616-2016: Galileo and the Inquisition, 400 years, José María VIGIL, Panama, Panama .............. 174

2017: 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Magali do Nascimento CUNHA, São Paulo SP, Brazil 186

III. TAKING ACTIONThat nobody has too much, so that nobody lacks what is necessary, Mª LÓPEZ VIGIL, Managua, Nicaragua 204

We declare poverty illegal, Luis INFANTI DE LA MORA, Aysén, Chile ............................................... 206

In favour of a basic income, universal and unconditional, Jordi COROMINAS, Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra . 208

Why there is so much inequality in Latin America, Juan Luis HERNÁNDEZ AVENDAÑO, Puebla, Mexico . 210

Changes in life styles with the new liberalism, Elfriede HARTH, Colombia - Germany ........................ 212

Through a struggle without frontiers, Claudia FANTI, Roma, Italy ............................................... 214

Inequality and liberation, Gustavo YELA, Guatemala, Guatemala ....................................................216

Inequality and world politics, François HOUTART, Quito, Equador ...................................................218

Paths of communion in the world of inequality, Marcelo BARROS, Recife, PE, Brazil ...................... 220

To decrease with equity, Elías RUIZ VIRTUS, San Pedro Sula, Honduras ................................................222

About Marx, Piketty and the lilies of the field, Nicolau João BAKKER, Diadema SP, Brazil .............. 224

Hispanics and inequality, history of slavery and servitude, Yolanda CHÁVEZ, Los Angeles, CA, USA .226

Pope Francis’s proposals before inequality, Summary by the Latin American Agenda ..................... 228

The threads that ruin us, Martín VALMASEDA, Cobán, Guatemala .................................................. 230

Closing

Koinonia Services ..................................................................................................................25

Who’s Who .......................................................................................................................... 232

Notes ...........................................................................................................................234-244

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