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Karina M. Herrera Miller
Con más de sesenta a;os de producción intelectual, el comunicólogo boliviano Luis Ramiro Beltrán contribuyó con proposiciones teóricas y líneas temáticas al origen y la formación de un pensamiento crítico comunicacional en América Latina.Al cuestional, en la década de 1970, las bases de la comunicación para la modernización, Beltrán encarnó todo un movimiento en las Ciencias Sociales en América Latina, y en particular en el emergente campo de las Ciencias de la Comunicación, que contribuirá a un despertar teórico y metodológico crítico en la región.
With over sixty years of intellectual production, the bolivian comunicologist Luis Ramiro Beltran contributed with theoretical propositions and thematic lines to the origin and the formation of a critical thinking in Latin America. By questioning, in the 1970s, the foundation of Communication for modernization, Beltran embodied a movement in the Social Sciences in Latin America, particularly in the emerging field of Communication Sciences, that will contribute to a theoretical and methodological critical awakening in the region. He dennounced the affiliation of mass communication to the power structures in the region; he unveiled the importation of development models mismatched and unrelated to the realities of Latin America; he proposed policy actions to counteract the unbalanced flow of information and communications and promote genuine development through National Communication Policies; and also worked to strengthen the role of the development contribution of communication, with particular emphasis on the lastdecade in the relationship between communication and health. In his later years before his death, in July 2015, also he made a unique contribution to promoting the study, from a decolonized look, of pre-Columbian indigenous communications in the region.
