This text has the specific character of debate retaken by the author caused by reviews and interviews about his book The Idea of Latin America, published in 2005. It begins demonstrating how the various narratives of the history of colonization are plural, but as they spread they become unified in global narratives of an universal character, as an effect of totality processes. For the author that diversity of silent but alive historical forces, are today exposed, without a perspective of return to the past. In this sense he speaks about the modernity/coloniality project of decolonizing knowledge, answering and deepening several paradoxical aspects forwarded by the debate of his book, as the dialogue among thoughts of emancipation and movements that appear in the center of the world system. With this he doesn't intend to close the debate, but, on the contrary, strives to update it and to move forward in those issues of non-homogeneous populations and difference from a perspective of future and from a perspective of a pluri-versalist knowledge and practices.
modernity; emancipation; difference; decolonization of thought; Latin America