Hernán José VARGAS PÉREZ

Libro América Latina – Foto: Milangela Galea

Nationality: Venezuelan

Title: alternative economies researcher

Affiliation/Organization: ALBA movements continental plattform / Venezuela’s urban

Member of the ALBA Movements’s secretariat (social movements’s american continental platform) responsable of political articulation and international solidarity. Member of the political coordination of Urban people’s movement -Movimiento de Pobladores- (Venezuelan platform). Also experienced in political education for territorial planning and organizative community building.

Hernán José Vargas Pérez is a spokesperson for a Venezuelan platform of urban organizations called Movimiento de Pobladoras y Pobladores (Urban Inhabitants Movement), he is also responsible of political articulations in the continental platform of social movements towards ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for Peoples of Our America). He is also an integrant of the technical committee for promotion of “RUNASUR” (a young network of South American indigenous organisations and urban social movements led by Evo Morales). The last five years Mr Vargas had co-conducted a project of independent research on social reproduction and popular economies leading to the foundation of Venezuela’s Observatory on Popular Economies.

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