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The Latin American Program and its institutes on Mexico and Brazil serve as a bridge between the United States and Latin America, providing a nonpartisan forum for experts from throughout the region and the world to discuss the most critical issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program sponsors research, conferences, and publications aimed at deepening the understanding of Latin American and Caribbean politics, history, economics, culture, and U.S.-Latin American relations. By bringing pressing regional concerns to the attention of opinion leaders and policymakers, the Program contributes to more informed policy choices in Washington, D.C., and throughout the Hemisphere.
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The Latin American Program coordinates an active program of public meetings featuring scholars, analysts, and public officials from the United States, Latin America, and around the world and disseminates the results of its activities through publications including conference reports, bulletins, event summaries, and commercially published books.
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Resource Pages
Seguridad ciudadana en las Américas The blog, created and maintained by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, serves to bring attention to the work of researchers, security specialists, journalists, civil society organizations and politicians throughout the region.
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Upcoming Events
Regional Integration in the Americas: The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis
Monday, November 23 2009, 9:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Andrés López, Red Mercosur; Roberto Bouzas, UDESA; Carol Wise, University of Southern California; Rubens Barbosa, Barbosa & Associates; Sidney Weintraub, CSIS; Luz María de la Mora, Instituto de Comercio de Mexico; José María Fanelli, CEDES/Red Mercosur; Pablo Sanguinetti, CAF; Pablo Heidrich, North-South Institute; Inés Bustillo, CEPAL; Eric Santor, Bank of Canada; Barbara Kotschwar, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Ramón Torrent, Universidad de Barcelona
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Publications
Update on the Americas - Democratic Governance and the 'New Left'
Poverty, Inequality and the New Left in Latin America
Author: Nora Lustig
This is a research paper, in English, commissioned for the conference, by Argentine economist Nora Lustig, who provides an overview of trends in poverty and inequality throughout Latin America, comparing left and non-left governments, as well as left governments and their non-leftist predecessors in their own countries.
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Wilson Center Reports on the Americas
Democratic Deficits:
Addressing Challenges to Sustainability and Consolidation Around the World- #21
Author: Gary Bland and Cynthia Arnson, editors
This book comparatively explores the obstacles countries face in sustaining and consolidating democratic systems. Topics include social services, poverty, and inequality, specific case studies, and how government policy and development practices improve the quality of life of citizens in democratic regimes.
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La "nueva izquierda " en América Latina: Derechos humanos, participación política, y sociedad civil
Author: Compilado por Cynthia J. Arnson, Ariel C. Armony, Catalina Smulovitz, Gastón Chillier, Enrique Peruzzotti, con Giselle Cohen
This book explores the phenomenon of leftist governments in Latin America from the perspective of human rights and civic participation. Topics include accountability for past violations, new challenges in promoting human rights, political participation and civil state society, and social politics and civil society.
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Reforma de las fuerzas armadas en América Latina y el impacto de las amenazas irregulares #20
Author: Lilian Bobea, Oscar Bonilla, Lucía Dammert, Rut Diamint, Carlos Basombrío Iglesias, Oswaldo Jarrín R., Raúl Benítez Manuat, Eliézer Rizzo de Oliviera, Gabriel Aguilera Peralta
Regional experts address security sector reforms in light of the increasingly unconventional and transnational nature of the threats affecting
Latin America.
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Event Summaries
La inserción económica internacional de Uruguay
Monday, September 14 2009, 8:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Offsite event in Montevideo, Uruguay
Sergio Abreu, Consejo Uruguayo de Relaciones Internacionales; José Raúl Perales, Woodrow Wilson Center; Roberto Porzecanski, Tufts University; Pedro da Motta Veiga, Centro de Estudos de Integração e Desenvolvimento; Marcel Vaillant, Universidad de la República; Alvaro Ons, Ministerio de Economía; Gerardo Caetano, Universidad de la República; Roberto Porzecanski, Tufts University; Javier Silva, Instituto Cuesta – PIT CNT; José Botafogo Gonçalves, Conselho Brasileiro das Relaçoes Internacionais; Gustavo Bittencourt, Oficina de Planificación y Presupuesto; Inés Terra, Universidad de la República; Fernando Borraz, Universidad de la República; Carlos Pérez del Castillo, United Nations Development Programme; Julio Lacarte Muró, OAS; Ope Pasquet, Partido Colorado; Javier de Haedo, Partido Nacional; Gonzalo Pérez del Castillo, Partido Independiente; Elbio Fuscaldo, Cámara de Industrias de Uruguay; Pedro da Motta Veiga, Centro de Estudos de Integração e Desenvolvimento; Carlos Luján, Universidad de la República; Roberto Conde, Partido Socialista del Uruguay- Frente Amplio
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Poverty, Inequality, and the “New Left” in Latin America
Tuesday, July 21 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University and Nonresident Fellow, Center for Global Development
Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank
Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, Senior Economist, Poverty and Reduction Group, The World Bank
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That Little Infernal Cuban Republic:
U.S. Policies Toward Cuba in Historical Perspective
Wednesday, July 15 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tomás Bilbao, Cuba Study Group
Ignacio Sanchez, DLA Piper
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Cynthia Arnson,
Director
Andrew Selee,
Director, Mexico Institute
Paulo Sotero,
Director, Brazil Institute
Robert Donnelly,
Program Associate, Mexico Institute
José Raúl Perales,
Senior Program Associate
Nikki Nichols,
Program Assistant
Kate Putnam,
Program Assistant, Mexico Institute
Adam Stubits,
Program Associate
Leslie Bethell,
Senior Scholar, Brazil Institute
Joan Nelson,
Senior Scholar
Joseph S. Tulchin,
Senior Scholar
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Latin American Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: lap@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4030
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