Events

Dear All,
We hope you can join us in any of our upcoming Inside Latin America events:
* Labor Costs, Labor Informality, and Income Distribution in Colombia and Chile -
Wednesday, April 25
* Conference with Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari - Thursday, April 26.

Here are other events and announcements for this week:
* Environmental Politics in Bolivia Under Evo Morales: Buen Vivir vs. New Extractivism - Tuesday, April 24

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN BOLIVIA UNDER EVO MORALES: BUEN VIVIR VS. NEW EXTRACTIVISM
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Room 909 of the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York University,
New York, NY 10012

When Evo Morales became the first indigenous president of Bolivia in 2006, concerned citizens and environmentalists from around the globe looked hopefully to his leadership in environmental politics. From the Buen Vivir development model to the Law of Mother Earth, the Morales administration touts some of the most progressive environmental policies of any government in the world. Internationally, Bolivia is heralded for these innovative policies. At home, the nation faces a pressing dilemma, that of choosing between an environmentally-conscious development logic and large-scale projects for natural resource extraction that will damage the nation's environment.
This one-day conference will ask: How can a nation that is dependent on natural resource extraction chart an environmentally-conscious course to economic development and justice?

Conference Participants:
- Eduardo Gudynas (presenting in Spanish), Executive Secretary, Latin American Center of Social Ecology
-Juan Pablo Ramos (presenting in Spanish), Ex. Vice minister of the Environment under Evo Morales
-Rafael Archondo (presenting in Spanish), Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations
-Marcela Olivera, Latin American Coordinator for the ?Water for All" Campaign
-Rebecca Hollender, Facilitator of Climate Change and Justice Working Group, AGRECOL Andes
-Deborah Poole, Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University

Presented by the Andean Initiative of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at New York University, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University, NYU Native Studies Forum, the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) at The New School University, the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, the NYU Latino Studies Program, and the Latin American Student Association at SIPA-Columbia University.