The Obama Administration and Latin America: The First Year
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM - Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM - An Assessment of the First Year
Moises Naim, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM - First Panel: Intermestic Issues: The Obama Administration, Migration, and Drug Trafficking
George Grayson, Class of 1938 Professor of Government, The College of William and Mary
Manuel Orozco, Director, Remittances and Development Program, The Inter-American Dialogue
Marie Price, Professor, Geography and International Affairs, GW
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM - Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Keynote Address
Alejandro Toledo, Former President of Peru
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM - Second Panel: The Obama Adminstration on Democratization in Latin America
Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Lino Gutierrez, Professor of International Affairs, GW; former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Nicaragua
Sarah Stephens, Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Lunch and Keynote Address
Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
* Monday, February 22, 2010
* 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
* Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
* 1957 E Street, NW
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* Sponsored by the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program