This paper aims to study the relaunch of the Argentine intellectual and politician Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986) by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC). As we have seen that this is a partial rescue of the author s work, we are interested in problematizing the form, the context, as well as the implications of this enterprise. We contextualize the author s work in the debate on development, underdevelopment and dependence in Latin America between the 1950s and 1970s. We study his main theoretical contributions throughout his life, contrasting with biographical data of the author. We analyze the Commission s initiative to retake Prebisch as an author whose formulations are in force and to reinsert the development debate in the current context from a new political economy: Neo-structuralism. Although he is a reference author in the debate on development in Latin America, we try to understand the reasons that led to the choice of this author as well as the milestone in which this initiative is produced.