Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera will give an update on the current political situation in Venezuela, including the latest information on where things stand with the referendum to recall President Hugo Chávez. This is a rare opportunity to hear a voice from an embattled democratic government.
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera is the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States. Previously he was elected as Deputy to the National Congress for Miranda State in 1994. While a Deputy, he served as Vice President of the Defense Committee and President of the Energy and Mines Committee...
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dismantled barriers and nearly tripled trade and investment. However, it failed to address the development gap between Mexico and its northern neighbors, and it omitted any credible institutions to anticipate crises or shape a new partnership. Thus, instead of uniting to respond to Sept. 11 , old habits of U.S. unilateralism and Canadian and Mexican ambivalence prevailed, endangering further integration. We need to plan for the second decade of NAFTA by developing North American solutions to continental problems and opportunities. ...
Charlie Kernaghan is Executive Director of the National Labor Committee, an independent human rights organization. He is prominent in the labor movement for drawing attention to and helping correct the overseas labor practices of U.S. corporations. The New York Times calls him “the labor movement’s mouse that roared.”
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Professor Barros de Castro teaches at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and has been a visiting professor at the Center for Latin American Studies. Professor Barros de Castro is an expert on Brazilian industrial and trade policy, having directed BNDES, Brazil's giant development bank, which has a loan volume greater than the World Bank's.
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Vinod Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Aggarwal has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, OECD, the Group of Thirty, and the World Bank. Professor Aggarwal will present with Ralph H. Espach, a doctoral student in political science.
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Professor Albert Fishlow teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Previously Dr. Fishlow was Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Dean of International and Area Studies. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1975 to 1976.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the constitution of the North American Common Market. It recognizes only one form of citizenship — that of multinational corporations. The North American Parliamentary Union (NAPU) is a democratic structure which will enfranchise citizens, farmers, laborers, small business people and environmentalists in the NAFTA countries as well as Central America. It will broaden the playing field so that our best democratic values will be incorporated into our social, economic and political decisions.
