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"Some deaths you never quite manage to take in, and this is one of them. Óscar Ugarteche was so alive, so strong, so brimming with intelligence and energy, that it seems impossible he died this past Saturday 11th of July."

"Born in Peru, he died far from his own country, in Mexico City, the place that took him in for his last twenty years and that, became a kind of exile. Óscar always spoke with longing about the Lima of his childhood: the old cafés where his father used to read the newspaper the way people did in Europe, the shops where they would stop afterwards to buy a cake to take home. His face would light up as he described it, and then darken, because none of it, he would say, is left. The savage liberalization policies of the 1980s swept away the cafés, the corner shops, the local economy, even the newspapers, and turned Lima into a chaotic, traffic-choked, underdeveloped city. Óscar spent his whole life studying and fighting those imported neoliberal recipes that manufacture underdevelopment for the many in order to enrich the few."

"He came from an affluent family and there was always something faintly aristocratic about him. I mean that in the only sense of the word I like: Óscar was elegant and generous, he gave his time to governments and to small NGOs alike. A good education opened the doors of universities abroad. He studied finance at Fordham University in New York, took a master’s degree at the London Business School (1975), and he began his adult life working as a consultant on finance and sovereign debt. It was the predictable path, the one predetermined by his background. And then, when he was around  thirty, he made a decision I find the most admirable in a life of admirable decisions: he turned around. He could have spent his entire existence oiling the machinery of an unjust system, as the vast majority of people do, but instead he chose to cross over to the other side and devote his intelligence to changing that system and making it better."

"That second life, the real one in every way that counts, was longer and harder. In 1982 the foreign debt crisis exploded in Latin America, and there was a lot to be done. He advised governments, the United Nations, the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and Oxfam. He was one of the founders of Latindadd, the Latin American network for economic justice, and he worked shoulder to shoulder with civil society organizations, not only across the continent but in other regions too."

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