Atilio Borón

Atilio Borón is an Argentine Marxist sociologist.

Biography
Atilio Borón received a PhD from Harvard University.

He worked as a Professor of Political Science at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute and at the University of Buenos Aires. He also served as Secretary General of CLACSO, an academic umbrella body for Latin America. In 2005, he signed the World Social Forum's Porto Alegre Manifesto.

At the Transnational Institute, he serves as Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of the New Politics project. He also serves as director of the Center for European and Latin American Research in Buenos Aires. He also writes a column in a national Argentinian newspaper.

He has called the United States a "terrorist threat to world peace". He has also been critical of Israel's systemic racism. He has voiced his disapproval of the American handling of Julian Assange. Borón has also condemned Barack Obama for ordering the murder of Muammar Gaddafi.

In 2009 he received the International José Martí Prize from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.