Nildo Ouriques
Brazilian economist
Nildo Domingos Ouriques (born 1959) is a Brazilian economist and academic. He has served as president of the Institute for Latin American Studies (IELA) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and as a professor of economics at the same university. Throughout his academic career, he has taught at institutions across the world, including the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, the University of Padua in Italy, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, and Simón Bolívar University in Quito, Ecuador. In 2020, Ouriques was included on a list of so-called "government detractors" in academia and journalism.
Life and academic career
Ouriques was born in Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and lived in the city until the age of 17, when he finished high school. During his youth, Ouriques was active in the student movement against the military dictatorship. Ouriques holds a doctorate in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a post-doctorate degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Much of Ouriques' work focuses on the relationship between Marxism and nationalism, as well as the Marxist theory of dependence more generally.
Political activity and views
Ouriques, who was a member of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) for two decades, left the party, citing his displeasure with what he referred to as the "petucan system" (a portmanteau of petista, a member of the PT, and tucano, a member of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB). According to Ouriques, though the PT was born out of "workers' protest against the dictatorship", the party had succumbed to the "bourgeois order" in power.
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