The economic crisis and disabled Latin Americans

Stuart Schrader, a doctoral student in sociology at the City University of New York, interviewed Eduardo Joly, sociologist, wheelchair user, and President of Fundación Rumbos, a nongovernmental organization in Argentina that focuses on accessibility from a human-rights perspective, about the effect of the financial crisis on disabled people in Latin America for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Web site.

Joly is a founding member of the Disability Rights Network in Argentina and Visiting Professor and Researcher, Postgraduate Program on Disability, at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. He recently wrote an article for the Southern Cone edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, called “Disability and Employment: Entitled to be Exploited?”