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Expanding
the Possible: President Ricardo
Lagos on Berkeley campus during his stay,
fall 2006, and with Chancellor Robert
J. Birgeneau.
(photos: Dionicia Ramos and Scott Squire) |
Expanding
the Possible
Ricardo
Lagos, President of Chile from 2000–2006,
was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin
American Studies this fall. In a public talk,
he spoke about the challenges and possibilities
for Chile and Latin America in the future.
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David
Bonior (left) speaks about NAFTA
and free trade agreements as President
Lagos listens.
(photo: David R. Léon Lara) |
Who
Enjoys the Fruits of Trade?
President
Lagos and David Bonior, House Democratic Whip 1991-2002,
talked about the effects of free trade agreements,
NAFTA, and labor during a free-wheeling discussion
moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken.
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President
Lagos with then-Defense Minister,
now President Michelle Bachelet in
2004.
(photo courtesy of www.presidencia.cl) |
Defining
New Frontiers
During
his presidency, Ricardo Lagos redefined the possibilities
in Chile, planning and working for the future while
also dealing with the ghosts of the past. Kirsten
Sehnbruch analyzes Lagos' impact in Chile,
Latin America and the world.
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American
protestors fighting against the
adoption of NAFTA in 1993 . (photo:
AP Wide World) |
Afta
Thoughts on NAFTA
Brad
DeLong, Berkeley Professor of Economics and part
of the Clinton Administration team that negotiated
NAFTA, has some second thoughts on its effects
12 years after the agreement was adopted.
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Colombian
narcopolice guard a seized coca
field.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
Plan
Colombia: Coca Moves to the Right
Daniel
Coronell, a Senior Visiting Scholar at CLAS who
will be teaching a course on modern Colombia in
spring 2007, says that the plan to halve Colombian
coca production hasn't decreased it, but has moved
its production from areas controlled by leftist
guerillas to those controlled by right-leaning
paramilitaries.
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The
army violently quashes a demonstration
in Argentina in 1982.
(photo: Pablo Lasansky) |
State
Terrorism in Argentina:
Images and Memories
CLAS
featured an art exhibit this fall, En Negro
y Blanco,
of news photographs about state terror in Argentina
before, during and after the military dictatorship.
Professor Mark Healey discusses its impact.
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A
young man dragged off by the police
in 1982.
(photo:
David García) |
The
Screams Behind the Photographs
Ambassador
Héctor
Timerman, Argentina's Consul General in New York,
was intimately familiar with state terror in
Argentina; his father Jacobo was arrested, tortured
and imprisoned. Ambassador Timerman talks about
the art exhibit, and the emotions behind the images.
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Felipe
Calderón, new president
of a divided Mexico, holds up a newspaper
proclaiming his victory.
(photo: AP Wide World) |
Divided
Mexico
Professor
Denise Dresser of ITAM talks about the social and
political tensions that underlie both the divisive
campaign for and the ongoing disputes over the
2006 Mexican presidential election.
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Mexican
legislators brawl in the Congress
building, just prior to the inauguration
of Felipe Calderón.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
Civil
Government?
Professor
Rafael Fernández de Castro, head of International
Studies at ITAM and the co-chair of the U.S.-Mexico
Futures Forum, argues for the need for civility
in Mexican politics.
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The
wrestler "Little Ray of Hope" raises
his fist in support of AMLO.
(photo: AP Wide World) |
Not
a Game for Angels
Manuel
Camacho, former president of the PRI, mayor of
Mexico City, and now a key strategist for Andrés
Manuel López Obrador, spoke about the election,
its aftermath, and the path ahead in a talk at
UC Berkeley in November 2006.
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Professor
Nancy Scheper-Hughes with Gaddy Tauber. (photo
courtesy of Nancy Scheper-Hughes) |
Portrait
of Gaddy Tauber: Organs Trafficker, Holocaust
Survivor
In
a cell in Brazil, Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes interviews
a man who managed to survive the Holocaust as a
child, but now is imprisoned in Brazil for persuading
poor Brazilians to sell their kidneys abroad.
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The
Writing on the Wall
Teresa
Caldeira researches the subcultures of street artists
in São Paulo, Brazil, tracing the dividing
lines between the elaborate designs of the more
accepted graffiti artists and the angular calligraphy
of their competitors for public space, the pichadors.
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Anderson
Sá of AfroReggae performs
during "Favela Rising." (photo courtesy of
Jeff Zimbalist) |
A
New Spin on Rio's Favelas
Favela
Rising, a documentary screened at CLAS this fall,
offers a new and hopeful take about improving people's
lives in the poorest and most violent of Rio's shantytown
neighborhoods.
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Environmental
Entrepreneurs
Doug
Tompkins went from the boardroom of Esprit to the
wilds of Patagonia, helping to create new national
parks and maintain open space in charting out an environmentally
sustainable future for Latin America. Download
this article (630 KB .pdf) |
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