Changes in development styles in the future of Latin America

The month of November 1987 marked the passage of 10 years since the death of José Medina Echavarría, who not only was the first member of ECLAC to tackle the social and political aspects of development, but also through his fecund labours and his influence on several generations became the most outstanding personality who has ever worked with ECLAC in this field, as well as one of Latin America’s most brilliant sociologists in the present century.