Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 

A LEFT TURN IN LATIN AMERICA

a panel discussion with

JULIA PRESTON, federal court correspondent for The New York Times; Pulitzer-prize winning Latin America correspondent from 1987- 2001. Co-author of Opening Mexico: The Making of A Democracy

and

DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN, Associate Editor, Foreign Affairs; Contributor to The New Republic, The Washington Post and other publications

Moderated by

SILVANA PATERNOSTRO, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, author of In the Land of God and Man: A Latin Woman's Journey

By the 1990s, Latin America had arrived at the end of history, or so it was said. Long traditions of left-wing activism and revolutionary upheaval had given way to the totalizing vision of the Washington Consensus of free markets and privatization. But it took less than a decade for this consensus to fracture, heralding an apparent resurgence of the Latin American left. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Lula, and a slew of like-minded leaders have risen to power through elections, while social movements from Bolivia's cocaleros to Argentina's piqueteros have forced national governments to take seriously their social demands. What remains unclear is just what this next generation of the Latin American left plans to do with power--and whether its hopes for change will once again be thwarted.

Thursday, March 17, 2005, 6:00-7:30PM . Swayduck Auditorium, First Floor, 65 Fifth Avenue (between East 13th -14th ). Admission is free .