This week we bring you the
first part of an interview with Joseph W. Recinos, the Latin America Director
of the Center for Economic and Social Justice.
Joe, a development economist, is a volunteer, and a co-founder of
CESJ.
In 1986 Joe was
appointed a Counselor to the Presidential Task Force on Project Economic
Justice. He was also the principal consultant for the ESOP at Finca La Perla, Guatemala,
which has received recognition as a new model for land reform. He was project
manager of the professional team which designed an “ESOP parallel legal system”
funded by the Ministry of Planning in Costa Rica, and for the USAID-funded
project to implement ESOPs in Guatemala.
In 1991 Joe
designed a 100% ESOP buyout to privatize the seed processing plants owned by
the Ministry of Natural Resources of Honduras. He also advised the World Bank on
privatization of the Mexican Steel Industry.
Joe was
contracted by the Inter-American Development Bank to work with the Ministry of
Finance and the Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) to design ESOP
legislation. He serves as a principal
advisor of the Central American Solidarista Labor Federation and has also advised
port authority and telecommunications labor unions on ESOP privatization
strategies.
Joe received his Masters degree in
Economics and Latin American Affairs in 1969 from the Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service, and his B.A. in Political Science and Economics in
1967 from the City University of New York. In 1989 Joe received CESJ’s Soldier (now
Servant) of Justice Award.
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