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The External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean
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| | SAVING THE AMERICAS |
| | The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and |
| (Embedded image | What the U.S. Must Do |
| moved to file: | By Andrés Oppenheimer |
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| | This new book by Pulitzer-prize co-winner |
| | and The Miami Herald syndicated columnist |
| | Andrés Oppenheimer illustrates in detail |
| | how the current U.S. administration's |
| | policy towards Latin America is actually |
| | creating the very immigration issues |
| | President Bush is fighting to solve. "When |
| | it comes to everyday issues that affect |
| | most Americans -whether immigration, |
| | trade, the environment or, increasingly, |
| | energy- no region in the world has a |
| | bigger impact on the United States than |
| | Latin America," writes Oppenheimer. |
| | As an acknowledged expert on Latin |
| | America, Oppenheimer uses his experience |
| | and reporting skills to show how this |
| | region is becoming increasingly less |
| | important on the world stage, and the |
| | resulting negative effects on the lives of |
| | Americans. Oppenheimer traveled to China, |
| | India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ireland |
| | and more than a dozen Latin American |
| | countries to see first-hand what is |
| | pushing some nations ahead and others |
| | back. And in his characteristic style - |
| | mixing travel anecdotes, humor and |
| | political analysis - he came to a |
| | surprising conclusion: that despite its |
| | current troubles, Latin America can rise |
| | from economic and political obscurity to |
| | become a booming market and an influential |
| | player in world affairs. |
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?Once again, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Andrés Oppenheimer
shows his deep understanding of the dramatic changes in Latin
America, and the impact of America?s ongoing indifference to the
region. For anyone seeking to understand Latin America?s re-emerging
populism and the effects of this administration?s disastrous foreign
policy in the region, this book is a must read. Oppenheimer gives
his readers hope for a new vision in Latin America.?
?Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
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A reception will follow the presentation
MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Working in the Latin America
and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek oversees
communications for the Bank?s entire action field within the region.
He is also a founder of COM+ Alliance, which is a partnership of
international organizations and communications professionals who are
committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable
development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social, and
environmental, and that works worldwide. He has extensive experience
in developing countries both as a working journalist and as an
advisor to international organizations.
PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Andrés Oppenheimer
Latin American editor and foreign affairs columnist, The Miami
Herald
Mr. Oppenheimer's syndicated column, The Oppenheimer Report, appears
twice a week in The Miami Heraldand in more than 40 U.S. and Latin
American newspapers, including La Nación of Argentina and Reforma of
Mexico. He is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español, and a
frequent guest at PBS' Jim Lehrer News Hour. He also hosts his own
television talk show in Spanish on current events, Oppenheimer
Presenta. He is the co-winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize as a member
of The Miami Herald team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He
has won the Inter-American Press Association Award twice (1989 and
1994); the 1997 award of the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists; the 1993 Ortega y Gasset Award of Spain's daily El País
; the 1998 Maria Moors Cabot Award of Columbia University; the 2001
King of Spain Award, given out by the Spanish news agency EFE and
King Juan Carlos I of Spain; and an Overseas Press Club Award in
2002. The Ortega y Gasset and the King of Spain awards are the two
most prestigious journalism awards in the Spanish-speaking world.
Oppenheimer was selected by the Forbes Media Guide as one of the
?500 most important journalists? of the United States in 1993, and
by Poder magazine as one of the ?100 most powerful people? in Latin
America in 2002. For more information on Mr. Oppenheimer, please
visit: www.AndresOppenheimer.com.
COMMENTS BY
Marcelo Giugale
Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Latin America and
the Caribbean, World Bank
Mr. Giugale is an international development leader, his twenty years
of experience span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia,
and Latin America, where he led senior-level policy dialogue and
over $5 billion in lending operations across the development
spectrum. He has published widely on economic policy, finance,
development economics, business, agriculture, and applied
econometrics. Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of
policy notes published for the presidential transitions in Mexico
(2000), Colombia (2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006), and Peru
(2006). He has received decorations from the governments of Bolivia
and Peru, and has taught at the American University in Cairo, the
London School of Economics, and the Universidad Católica Argentina.
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