One of the Center’s most popular programs, the Latin American Briefing Series brings influential academic experts, policymakers, and business leaders together at the University of Chicago to explore emerging current affairs that will shape future social, political, and economic trends in Latin America.
The Latin American Briefing Series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center grant and by the Center for Latin American Studies Corporate Partners Program. Lectures in the CLAS Latin American Briefing Series are recorded and available for viewing.
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Spring 2012 Briefings
Energy Policy and Resource Nationalism in Latin America
David Mares
Baker Institute Scholar for Latin American Energy Studies
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (Rice University)
Professor of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
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Fall 2011 Briefings
In Search of Democracy:
Post-Populism and Pragmatic Leftism in the Andes
Michael Shifter
President of the Inter-American Dialogue
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Previous Briefings
The Andean Region in the Global Cocaine Economy: Continuities and Change
Kevin Healy
Georgetown University
May 2011
The Current State of Affairs in Puerto Rico
Literature professor Juan Duchesne and historian Carlos Pabón
A discussion moderated by Prof. Lugo-Ortiz, Romance Languages and Literatures
May 2011
Argentina Now: Rethinking Peronism in the light of the upcoming elections
Sergio Berensztein, Ernesto Calvo
Hernán Iglesias Political consultant, Academic and Journalist
A discussion moderated by Mariela Szwarcberg
CLAS
April 2011
Oil, Euphoria and the future of Brazil: The Politics of Potential and Limitation
Norman Gall
Journalist and Executive
Director of the Braudel Institute
March 2011
The Economics and Politics of Drugs and Violence in Mexico Gerardo Esquivel, Tinker Visiting Professor at CLAS and Professor of Economics at El Colegio de México
Eduardo Guerrero, Policy Consultant at Lantia Consultores
March 2011
Presence Without Empowerment? Gender Quotas, Reproductive Rights, and Violence Against Women in Latin America
Mala Htun, Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research
January 2011
The Center for Latin American Studies Distinguished Lecture on the Economy: Perspectives For The Brazilian Economy For The Next Few Years
Henrique Meirelles
Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil
November 2010
Left Behind: The False Promise of Populism in Latin America
Sebastian Edwards
Henry Ford II Professor of International Business Economics, Anderson School of Business, UCLA
November 2010
The Drug War in Mexico
Tinker Visiting Professor Alma Guillermoprieto interviews journalists Alejandro Paez (El Universal) and Claudia Mendez (El Periodico, Guatemala)
November 2010
Mexico's Recent Road to Stability
Manuel Sánchez Deputy Governor of the Bank of México
Booth School of Business
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Urban Planning in Brazil
Jaime Lerner
Former governor of the Brazilian state of Paraná
October 2010
The Informal Economy in Mexico
Santiago Levy
Inter-American Development Bank
April 2010
Chile After the Elections
Journalist Fernando Paulsen and Patricio Navia (New York University)
February 2010
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US Policy and Honduran Democracy
Rodolfo Pastor, Honduran Minister of Culture under Manuel Zelaya
November 2009
Democracy in Nicaragua
Tinker Visiting Professor, Alma Guillermoprieto, interviews Nicaraguan journalist
Carlos Fernando Chamorro.
October 2009
The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual
Rafael Hernández, editor of TEMAS
October 2009 Read article
Challenges in Latin America: The Importance of Increased Economical and Political Integration
Ambassador Charles S. Shapiro
February 2009
Mexican Oil and Gas Policies
Adrian Lajous
March 2009 Listen to audio
Hugo Chávez y la Realidad Venezolana de Hoy
Teodoro Petkoff
October 21, 2008
Poverty and Income Inequality in Brazil
Ricardo Paes de Barros
January 2008
Militarization of U.S. Foreign Relations with Latin America:
Prospects for Change
Lisa Haugaard, Joy Olson, Adam Isacson
April 2007
Poverty and Growth: Reflections on Latin America - Perspectives on Argentina
Juan Pablo Niccolini
February 2007 Watch video
Nicaraguan Presidential Elections: Prospects for the Region
Alejandro Bendana, Michel Gobat, Rose Spalding
January 2007
Mexico's 2006 Elections and the Fragility of Democratic Institutions
Francois Prud'homme
November 2006
Mexico's 2006 Elections and the Challenges for the New Government
Maria Amparo Casar
November 2006
Right vs. Left & the Newborn Mexican Democracy: Can the Three Survive?
Lorenzo Meyer
October 2006
Constructing a North American Community
Rodolfo Pastor
October 2005
The Weakness of the State in Latin America
Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de México
February 2005
NAFTA and Mexico Ten Years Later
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
January 2005
Venezuela: A Proposed Social Charter of the Americas
Fermin Toro, Jorge Valero, Dozthor Zurlent
November 2004
Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy
Jesus Silva Herzog Marquez
October 2004
Adapting and Reforming Institutions for Democracy
Jorge Chabat, Lorenzo Meyer, Jacqueline Peschard
April 2004 Watch video
Consolidating Democracy in Mexico
Jose Woldenberg
April 2004
The Urban International Economic Development: Lessons from a Colombian City
Enrique Peñalosa, Ronald Grzywinski
April 2004
Latin American Elections: Turning Left?
Larry Birns (Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
Fernando Coronil (University of Michigan)
Mabel Moraña (Washington University)
April 2006 Watch video
Managing Growth: Uncertainty in Latin America
(part of the Latin American Business Conference)
Edmundo Vallejo, Christopher Baudoin, Luis Ramirez Rojas
May 2004 Watch video
Other previous events
Cuban Environmental History: Four Key Topics from the Colony to the Socialist Revolution
Reinaldo Funes
Associate Professor of Environmental History at the Universidad de la Habana, Cuba.
Click here to listen to the audio of the lecture and here for Professor Funes' slides.
Environmental Policy, Social Movements and Science for the Brazilian Amazon
November 2009
Click here to enter the site of the conference. There are many resources: multimedia, articles, and reading suggestions.
Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas
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The Modern Human Rights Movements in Mexico
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U.S.- Cuban Academic Relations
Part I: The Politics of Cuban Exchanges Click here for the multimedia of the conference. Part II: Roundtable discussion on U.S.-Cuban Academic Exchange Click here for the multimedia of the conference.
Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juárez
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Poverty and Growth - Reflections on Argentina Session 1: Growth: Evidence and Sources (multimedia) Session 2: Growth, Poverty and Economic Development (multimedia) Session 3: Reflections on Argentina (multimedia)
Latin American Business Conference:
Sustained Growth in Latin America: Key Lessons from Chile
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Latin American Business Conference:
Argentina: Development, Outlook, Opportunities
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