Events Detail

November 17, 2010 – US Capitol Visitors Center
   

Are democracy and human rights in danger under the "21st Century Socialism" of Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia? 

Does the ALBA Alliance of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua constitute a threat to U.S. interests and inter American security? 

Is current U.S. policy toward the region equipped to respond to the erosion of democracy and the pernicious influence of such hostile actors as Iran, foreign and domestic terrorist groups, and narcotics traffickers? 

Four key U.S. Members of Congress and two panels of U.S. and Latin American experts will examine these and othersalient issues.   Partial list of panelists:

1st Panel 9:30 – 11:30 am

Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy

Dr. Alejandro Aguirre – President, Inter-American Press Association (Invited)

Marcial Fabricano  –  Bolivian indigenous leader

Dr. Xavier Castro –  Ecuadorean constitutional lawyer

Dr. Enrique Herreria  –  Ecuadorean congressman

Luis Nuñez  –  President, Civic Committee of Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Guillermo Zuloaga  – President, (Exiled) Globovision Television, Venezuela

Javier El-Hage  – The Human Rights Foundation

José Cárdenas  – Former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America, USAID. Former U.S. National Security Council

2nd Panel 11:30 – 1:30 pm

Terrorism, Radical Islam and Narco-trafficking

Amb. Jaime Daremblum  –  Hudson Institute, Former Costa Rican Ambassador to the US

Joseph Humire  – Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Jon Perdue – The Fund for American Studies

John Walters  –  Hudson Institute, former Director, White House Office of Drug Control Policy

Victor Hugo Velazco – Bolivian indigenous leader

Amb. Roger Noriega  – Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.  Former US Ambassador to the OAS

Joel Hirst – Council on Foreign Relations

Amb. Otto J. Reich  – Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.  Former Presidential Envoy for the Western Hemisphere