The Chilean President Gabriel Boric, the colombian innovator David Velez, the spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, and the Colombian pioneers Cristina Villarreal and Ana Cristina Gonzalez and the brazilian Sonia Guajajara are some of the 100 most influential people chosen by the magazine Time.
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The Chilean leader, Gabriel Boric, 36, shares a poster in his category with leaders like the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky, the American Joe Biden, the Chinese Xi Jinping, the russian Vladimir Putin, the german ORrsula von der Leyen (president of the European Union) or the last judge incorporated to the Supreme Court of the United States, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Of the young Chilean president, the Nobel laureate in economics, Joseph Stiglitz highlights that “is turning Chile, once again, into the social, political and economic laboratory of the world“, in the brief profile in which he describes it in this prestigious list.
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Boric, who promised when he won his party’s primaries that “if Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its graveyard“, “you will need all the skills you have shown – listening and communication, empathy – and a deep understanding of Chilean history and culture“to carry out this promise.
Another Latino on this year’s list, in the category of innovators, is the Colombian David Vélez, founder of the Brazilian digital bank Nubank.
David Velez, creator of Nubank
The Colombian president, Iván Duque, says of him that “empowered more than 54 million people in Latin America thanks to access to banking and all its benefits in a system that was previously unattainable for many“.
Following Nubank’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, “this unicorn is now leading a new generation of Colombians who dream big. David Vélez challenged the status quo and today the world recognizes his workDuke says.
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Her Colombian compatriots Cristina Villarreal and Ana Cristina González, who are part of the Just Cause pro-abortion movement are on the list Time for the fight they have waged to get abortion approved in the country.
Protest in favor of the decriminalization of abortion.
“Endurance, boundless belief and passionate commitment” are qualities needed to move a country and “these two women have it in spades“, Ailbhe Smyth, academic, feminist, LGBTQ activist and who highlights that they went straight to knock down the obstacle, says of them: “the Constitutional Court” and promoted a “broad-based social movement” to claim “vigorously your rights“.
Brazilian indigenous Sônia Guajajara’s parents were illiterate, and she had to go to work at the age of 10, but that did not prevent her from obtaining a university degree and being the first indigenous woman to be on a presidential ticket in Brazil.
If something defines it is “resist and continue resisting” to the “sexism“, against “massacre of indigenous“, to the “neoliberalism“, says the Brazilian politician and activist Guilherme Boulos, who emphasizes that she is in the “first line to fight against the attempt of the government of (Jair) Bolsonaro to destroy indigenous lands, along with the Amazon forest“.
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“Sônia is an inspiration (…) for millions of Brazilians who dream of a country that settles its debts with the past and finally welcomes the future“, assures Boulos.
The only Spaniard on this list is the tennis player Rafael Nadal, of whom the American football star Tom Brady highlights his cmental capacity and physical endurance to do what all great athletes make: “Bring out the best of themselves in the big moments“.
“Elevates your emotional state to a level where you can be incredibly focused on little things to create an advantage over your opponentadded Brady, who “admire athletes who push themselves to the limit” and ensures that “there is something to learn from his determination, his strategy and that he never takes anything for granted“.
“He will always be remembered as one of the best athletes of all disciplines“, close.
AFP
