The social actors and development options

The organizers of this seminar set me the topic of “social actors and development options”. I accepted without much thought, attracted by the opportunity of remeeting old friends in an intellectual setting in which I spent a good many years. Now, however, I feel misgivings at tackling such a topic from the remote perspective of Vermont, dependent for information about Latin America on the sporadic coverage of the press and the occasional arrival of ECLAC documents, and speaking moreover before a group of people who are veteran actors by their own right in the drama of Latin America. I am practically condemned to warm up ideas that have already become commonplaces.