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Institute Celebrates 26th Anniversary with Dinner and Hemispheric Conference

Conference focuses on Critical Issues in Latin America

On November 20, the Institute of the Americas will host its annual conference on Critical Issues in Latin America following a year in which the region has confronted assaults on democracy and struggled financially in the context of an international economic crisis.

The annual conference brings together important hemispheric leaders and analysts to discuss the region’s economy, the assault on Latin America’s democracies and the increasing danger that drugs and violence represent for the continent.

This event will gather experts such as Enrique García, president of the Andean Development corporation (CAF); Teodoro Petkoff, founder of the newspaper Tal Cual which has been outspoken in its criticism of both Chavismo and those who supported the coup attempt against President Hugo Chávez.; Robert Bonner, former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration and former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Manuel Camacho Solís, former mayor of Mexico City; Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based center for policy analysis and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs; and Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs.

These experts will address unanswered questions regarding today’s crisis and tomorrow’s recovery. The case of Venezuela and the coup in Honduras will be discussed as well as the war on drugs and the possibility of alternative policies for the region paying special attention to Plan Colombia and the Merida Initiative. The Critical Issues in Latin America Conference will build on the Institute’s experience in organizing successful meetings on these topics and will present an opportunity to debate and search for solutions to those issues of great concern to local governments, the media and the general population in Latin America and around the globe.