[Peace-discuss] Colombian finance minister to lecture on Latin American economic policy

[Phil Stinard]

I've posted below the university's press release about the Colombian finance 
minister's Tuesday visit to UIUC.  This is one of the very few times that a 
high-ranking official from one of the hemisphere's worst human rights 
abusers/US puppet regimes will be on campus.  I hope that people will show 
up to challenge him on his government's repressive policies (e. g. tacitly 
supporting chain-saw massacres and torture of indigenous peoples and 
political opponents, defoliating farmers' fields and destroying their 
livelihood, and conducting cross-border raids).  You might never get the 
chance again to challenge someone as close to Alvaro Uribe as Alberto 
Carrasquilla.

Please see Tom Mackaman's posts for information about a picket that is being 
organized for the 3:30 PM lecture.

--Phil

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Colombian finance minister to lecture on Latin American economic policy

Melissa Mitchell, News Editor
217-333-5491, melissa at uiuc.edu

10/1/04

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Alberto Carrasquilla, the minister of finance of Colombia, 
will present a seminar and lecture on Oct. 5 at the University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign.

“Does the Washington Consensus Still Hold? New challenges for Economic 
Policy Making in Latin America” is the topic of the informal discussion and 
seminar, which begins at 10 a.m. in 101 International Studies Building, 910 
S. Fifth St., Champaign. Seats for the seminar may be reserved on a 
first-come-first-serve basis by calling 333-3182 or by sending a message.

At 3:30 p.m., he will discuss “Economic Reform Under Political Constraints: 
the Role of Social Policy”; the talk will take place in the Pine Lounge of 
the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St. Urbana.

Carrasquilla, who also is a professor of economics and former dean at 
Universidad de los Andes in Bogatá, has held high-ranking positions in the 
Inter-American Development Bank and the Banco de la República, Colombia.

His visit is to the U. of I. is sponsored by the Center for Latin American 
and Caribbean Studies, in cooperation with the Jorge-Lemann Chair in Latin 
American Economics.