[3] He also served as Secretary General of CLACSO, an academic umbrella body for Latin America.

At the Transnational Institute, he serves as Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of the New Politics project.

[4] He also serves as director of the Center for European and Latin American Research in Buenos Aires.

[5] Borón has also condemned Barack Obama for ordering the murder of Muammar Gaddafi.

[6] In 2009 he received the International José Martí Prize from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.