In Memoriam: Marco Antonio Gandásegui Jr. (1943–2020)

• Date: 01 July 2020
• Author: Marjorie Bray
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X20935459
• Published date: 01 July 2020
• Subject Matter: In Memoriam

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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Issue 233, Vol. 47 No. 4, July 2020, 255

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X20935459

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In Memoriam

Marco Antonio Gandásegui Jr. (1943–2020)

The editors of Latin American Perspectives note with sadness the sudden

death on April 24, 2020, of the distinguished scholar, researcher, journalist,

activist, and LAP participating editor Marco Antonio Gandasegui Jr. Born in

Panama on April 28, 1943, Marco earned a degree in journalism at the

University of Chile in 1965, an M.A. in sociology from the Facultad

Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in 1970, and a Ph.D. degree in the same

field from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985. He was

professor of sociology emeritus at the University of Panama, director of the

magazine Tareas, founder and director of the Justo Arosemena Latin American

Studies Center, founder and coordinator of the Consejo Latinoamericano de

Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Working Group on the Study of the United

States, and a former member of the CLACSO directive committee and presi-

dent of the Latin American Sociological Association. His publications include

La concentración del poder económico en Panamá (1964), Las empresas públicas en

Panamá (1982), La fuerza de trabajo en el agro (1985), La democracia en Panamá

(1989), Las clases sociales en Panamá (1993), and Debate sobre la ampliación del

Canal de Panamá (2008) and a series of publications by the working group of

which the most recent are Estados Unidos y la nueva correlación de fuerzas inter-

nacional (2016) and Estados Unidos contra el mundo (2018).

Ever a diligent and responsive editor, Marco, who was recovering from sur-

gery, responded a day before he died that he would soon get back to working

on a manuscript he had received from the journal. Particularly noteworthy in

his collaboration with LAP was the issue entitled “The Crisis of U.S. Hegemony

in the Twenty-first Century” (34 [1], 2007) a joint effort of the CLACSO U.S.

Working Group and the journal’s editorial collective, which reviewed, revised,

and translated all its articles. In addition to the introduction to that issue he

contributed an article entitled “Paradoxes of Disconnectedness.” His other con-

tributions to LAP were “The 1998 Referendum in Panama” (26 [2], 1999), “Is the

Soviet Union Collapse Dragging the United States Down?” (34 [6], 2007),

“President Obama, the Crisis, and Latin America” (38 [4], 2011), and the book

review “Dance and Liberation in the Caribbean” (42 [1], 2015).

Marco was a valued colleague and compañero and was tireless in his struggle

against U.S. imperialism in his own country and elsewhere; the scope of his con-

cerns was truly hemispheric, and his loss has been noted throughout the region.

We salute him with his own call to action:“¡Vamos muchachos, publiquen y

denuncien las injusticias y las causas de los desposeidos en las comunidades,

luchen, que hay un gran trabajo por hacer y un país que liberar!”

—Marjorie Bray

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