Juneau World Affairs Forum:
Latin America

Friday, 11th-12th May, 2007 - at the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, Alaska
Featured Speakers
Kate Doyle
A Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America, currently directs the Mexico Project, which aims to obtain documents on U.S.-Mexican relations. Program topic: “The History of Violence: Human Rights Justice in Latin America”

John R. Hamilton
United States Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala. Program Topic: “From Carter to Bush: An Overview of the last 30 years of U.S. – Latin American Relations”

Paulo Sotero
Director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Program Topic: “The US through the Eyes of Brazil”.

Sergio Munoz
Sergio Munoz has served as a contributing editor and editorial board member of the Los Angeles Times, Editor of Nuestro Tiempo, executive editor and managing editor of La Opinión (Los Angeles, Calif.) and a columnist for numerous newspapers and journals in Latin America. Program Topic: “A Journalists Perspective on Current Events in Latin America”

Lise Nelson
Associate professor of geography at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Program Topic: “The Impact of Globalization on Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples”
ERIC HERSHBERG
Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Program Topic: “The Contours of the Contemporary Latin American Left”