Update 2013 Mission Statement

LATIN AMERICAN PROGRAM

UPDATE 2013 MISSION STATEMENT

The Latin American Program and its institutes scholars, analysts, and public officials from the on Mexico and Brazil serve as a bridge between United States, Latin America, and around the the United States and Latin America, providing world. The Program and its related Institutes a nonpartisan forum for experts from through- host scores of events each year in Washington, out the region and the world to discuss the D.C., and throughout Latin America. These most critical issues facing the Hemisphere. The events allow researchers, members of the Program sponsors research, conferences, and policymaking community, the media, and the publications aimed at deepening the understand- general public to keep apprised of current ing of Latin American and Caribbean politics, thinking in and about Latin America on a broad history, economics, culture, and U.S.-Latin range of critical issues. American relations. By bringing pressing regional concerns to the attention of opinion leaders and The Program conducts outreach to members of policymakers, the Program contributes to more the U.S. Congress and their staffs, aimed at broad- informed policy choices in Washington, D.C., ening congressional understanding of key issues in and throughout the Hemisphere. bilateral U.S.-Latin American relations. In cooperation with the Wilson Center on the Hill project, the The Latin American Program coordinates an Program sponsors trips to the region for members active program of public meetings featuring of Congress as well as briefings for staff.

A YEAR AT A GLANCE

Events Number of Events: 84 With Video: 60 Countries Represented: 16 Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela

Cosponsoring Organizations: 24 Wilson Center Programs: Asia Program, Africa Program, Canada Institute, China Environ- ment Forum, Cold War International History Project, Comparative Urban Studies Project, Environmental Change and Security Program, Global Sustainability and Resilience program, History and Public Policy Program, Kennan Institute, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Middle East Program, Program on America and the Global Economy Other Institutions: Andean Development Corporation, American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, Arizona State University, Brazil-U.S. Business Council, Cities Alliance, Conservation International, Fundacion Ideas para la Paz, George Mason Univeristy, Georgetown University’s Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, IDEA Internacional, ImmigrationWorks USA, Institute for Studies and Communication on Migration, Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Sao Paolo, Institute of the Americas, Inter- American Development Bank, International Housing Coalition, Migration Policy Institute, National Democratic Institute, NOREF, University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, USAID’s Urban Programs team, Vanderbilt University’s Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), World Bank

Publications Number of Publications:

Media Relations Number of Media Quotes: 360 Where: Associated Press, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Americas Quarterly, BBC Mundo, PBS, CNN, NPR, El País, Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, Miami Herald, Fox News, Bloomberg, Caracol, Financial Times, C-SPAN, Economist Intelligence Unit, Forbes, Reforma, El Tiempo, L.A. Times, New York Times, El Universal, UNIVISION, etc. 03 LATIN AMERICAN PROGRAM EVENTS May 23, 2013 April 25, 2013 Transitional Justice in Colombia’s Peace Drug Policy: A 21st Century Approach to Process Reform Co-sponsor: NOREF & Fundación Ideas para Jane Harman, Woodrow Wilson Center; R. la Paz Gil Kerlikowske, Director, Office of National Senator Juan Fernando Cristo, Colombian Drug Control Policy; Daniel Mejía Londoño, Senate; Juan Méndez, United Nations Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Carlos Special Rapporteur on Torture; María Camila Pita Alvariza, Ambassador of Uruguay to the Moreno, International Center for Transitional United States; Scott Wilson, The Washington Justice; Luz María Sánchez, DeJusticia; Juan Post; Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio Carlos Palou, Fundación Ideas para la Paz; Maria Victoria Llorente, Fundación Ideas April 19, 2013 para la Paz Economic Outlook in Panama and Latin America May 20, 2013 Frank de Lima, Panama’s Minister of Finance The Discourse of Indigenous Revolution in and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Andes the Inter-American Development Bank Jeffery Paige, University of Michigan and Wilson Center Fellow; Carmen Martínez, April 16, 2013 University of Kentucky; Kevin Healy, Inter- A New Security Crisis in Medellín? Analysis American Foundation and Policy Implications (Invitation only) May 15, 2013 Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga, former More than Revenue: Taxation as a Develop- president of the City Council, Medellín, ment Tool Colombia Co-Sponsor: Inter-American Development Bank April 9, 2013 Santiago Levy, Inter-American Develop- The Transnational Nature of Organized ment Bank; Ana Corbacho, Inter-American Crime in the Americas Development Bank; Teresa Ter-Minassian, Juan Carlos Garzón, Woodrow Wilson Center Consultant consultant; Ignacio de Lucas, Network of April 29, 2013 Central America Prosecutors to Confront Military Justice and Human Rights Organized Crime (REFCO); Walter Espinosa (Invitation only) Espinosa, Special Prosecutor for Organized Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, Minister of Crime, Costa Rica; Allan Edward Hernández Defense, Colombia Portillo, Anti-Extortion Unit, El Salvador; Ronny Elías López Jérez, Public Prosecutor 05 on Organized Crime, Guatemala; Steven American Public Opinion Project Dudley, Wilson Center Fellow and InSight Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt Univer- Crime; Gema Santamaría, New School for sity; José Miguel Cruz, Florida International Social Research; Daniel Rico, University University; Susan Berk-Seligson, Vanderbilt of Maryland; Marianna Pacheco Olinger, University; Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet, World Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Bank

March 28, 2013 February 25, 2013 China in Latin America: Public Impressions Political Transition in Venezuela: Next and Policy Implications Steps and the Implications for U.S. Policy Co-sponsors: Vanderbilt University’s Latin Margarita López Maya, Universidad Central American Public Opinion Project de Venezuela; The Honorable Patrick Duddy, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela; Risa University; Dinorah Azpuru, Wichita State Grais-Targow, Eurasia Group; David Smilde, University; Kang Liu, Duke University; Daniel University of Georgia and Washington Office Erikson, U.S. Department of State on Latin America

March 22, 2013 February 21, 2013 Democracy in Latin America: Analysis and Young and Undocumented: The New Policy Implications American Story Co-sponsor: Kellogg Institute for International Co-sponsors: Georgetown University, Mexico Studies, University of Notre Dame Institute, Africa Program Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame; Francisco, Kim, and Citlalli, Georgetown Frances Hagopian, Harvard University; Steven Levitsky, Harvard University

March 20, 2013 Implementing the Victims’ Law in Colombia Co-sponsor: National Democratic Institute (Invitation only) Paula Gaviria Betancur, Director of the Victims’ Unit, Government of Colombia

February 28, 2013 Crime, Violence, and Insecurity in Central America Co-sponsors: Vanderbilt University’s Latin University undergraduate students from January 10, 2013 Hoyas for Immigrant Rights Recovery, Reconstruction and Renewal: What It Takes to Build Back Better in Haiti February 7, 2013 Co-sponsor: Comparative Urban Studies Nation Building: The Plan for Public Project Education in Post-Earthquake Haiti Ambassador Paul Altidor, Ambassador of Co-sponsor: Program on America and the Haiti to the United States; Elizabeth Blake, Global Economy Habitat for Humanity International; Erick Vanneur Pierre, Minister of Education, Deryce, Pan American Development Founda- Haiti; Paul Vallas, distinguished scholar and tion; Ambassador Thomas Adams, U.S. education reformer; Kent Hughes, Program Department of State; Ambassador Albert on America and the Global Economy; Sharon Ramdin, Organization of the American States Ravitch, University of Pennsylvania December 11, 2012 January 30, 2013 The Political Economy of Tax Reform in The Peace Process in Colombia Latin America Co-sponsor: Fundación Ideas para La Paz Santiago Levy, Inter-American Development Enrique Santos Calderón, journalist, El Bank; Vito Tanzi, former director of the Tiempo; Marta Ruiz, journalist, Semana IMF Fiscal Affairs Department; Andrés Rius, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; Carlos Elizondo, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico; José Roberto Afonso, Federal Senate of Brazil; Juan Pablo Jiménez, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Chile; Natalia Salazar, Fedesarrollo, Colombia; Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics

December 10, 2012 The Decisive Vote? Co-sponsor: Mexico Institute; Arizona State University, ImmigrationWorks USA January 16, 2013 Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA; Dan Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin Restrepo, Obama presidential campaign; America Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Con- Daniel Levine, University of Michigan; servative Principles; Rodolfo Espino, Arizona Alexander Wilde, Wilson Center Senior State University; Roberto Suro, University Scholar; José Casanova, Georgetown of Southern California; Stephen Dinan, The University Washington Times 07 November 29, 2012 October 15, 2012 Successful Citizen Security Initiatives in Is the World More Dangerous 50 years Bogotá, Medellin, and Cali, Colombia: Are after the Cuban Missile Crisis? They Sustainable and Replicable? Co-sponsors: Kennan Institute, Cold War Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, International History Project Colombia; Jorge Giraldo Ramírez, Jane Harman, Woodrow Wilson Center; Universidad EAFIT, Medellín; Ariel Ávila, Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Corporación Arco Iris, Colombia; Aldo Civico, Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro Rutgers University; Nathalie Alvarado, Inter- on the Brink of Nuclear War; Graham Allison, American Development Bank; María Victoria Harvard University; Timothy J. Naftali, New Llorente, Fundación Ideas para la Paz America Foundation; Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio October 25, 2012 From the Great Wall to the New World: September 28, 2012 China and Latin America in the 21st Century Update Venezuela: The October 7, 2012, Co-sponsor: Kissinger Institute on China and Presidential Elections the United States Luis Vicente León, Datanálisis, Caracas; Ariel Armony, University of Miami; Julia David Smilde, University of Georgia and Strauss, University of London; Mauricio Washington Office on Latin America;David Mesquita Moreira, Inter-American De- Myers, Penn State University velopment Bank; Wei Hongxia, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace September 7, 2012 Venezuela’s Presidential Elections 2012: October 18, 2012 Report of a Study Mission Improving Citizen Security in Central Co-sponsor: IDEA Internacional America: Options for Responding to Youth Genaro Arriagada, former Ambassador of Violence Chile to the United States; José Woldenberg, Co-sponsor: Andean Development Corpora- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México tion (UNAM); Jennifer McCoy, Georgia State Guillermo Céspedes, Deputy Mayor, City University of Los Angeles; Adam Blackwell, Organiza- tion of American States; José Miguel Cruz, August 8, 2012 Florida International University; José Luis The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Sanz, El Faro, El Salvador; Julietta Castel- Future of International Trade lanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Co-sponsors: Canada Institute, Mexico Honduras; Carlos Hernández, Asociación Institute, Kissinger Institute on China and the para una Sociedad Más Justa, Honduras; Ana United States, Asia Program Glenda Tager, Interpeace, Guatemala Laura Dawson, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; Demetrios J. Marantis, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Jeff Schott, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Edward Lincoln, George Washington University; Jim Grueff, trade consultant; Linda Menghetti, Emergency Committee for American Trade; Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO; Stephanie Burgos, Oxfam America; Kent Hughes, Program on America and the Global Economy; Luz Maria De La Mora Sanchez, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar

July 12, 2012 Discussion with Prosecutor General Luis Eduardo Montealegre The Honorable Luis Eduardo Mon- tealegre, Prosecutor General (Fiscal General), Republic of Colombia

July 11, 2012 Religion and Violence in Central America Co-sponsor: American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies Robert Brenneman, Saint Michael’s College; Timothy Steigenga, Florida Atlantic Univer- sity; Josué Alvarado, Rio Grande Foods and Trabajemos Por la Paz

09 MEXICO INSTITUTE

The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. The Institute maintains an ongoing focus on five key issues in U.S.-Mexico relations: Security Cooperation; Economic Integration; Migration and Migrants; Border Issues; and Energy and Natural Resources, and provides analysis of key issues in Mexico’s politics and society for a U.S. audience. In addition, the Mexico Institute has an ongoing focus on Democracy and Elections in Mexico, including its speaker series “Dialogues with Mexico/Díalogos con Mexico,” and maintains an active Congres- sional Initiative, a Public Policy Scholars Program, and a special initiative on transparency and Mexican Rural Development.

10 MEXICO INSTITUTE EVENTS May 23, 2013 May 2, 2013 The State of the U.S.-Mexico Border Report Launch: New Ideas for a New Era: Filemon Vela, U.S. Congress (TX-34); Erik Policy Options for the Next Stage in U.S.- Lee, North American Center for Transborder Mexico Relations Studies; Carlos de la Parra, El Colegio de la Duncan Wood, Andrew Selee, Eric L. Frontera Norte; Christopher Wilson, Mexico Olson, Christopher Wilson, Miguel Salazar, Institute; Raúl Grijalva, U.S. Congress (AZ-3); Woodrow Wilson Center Ted Alden, Council on Foreign Relations; Lisa Almodovar, U.S. Environmental Protection April 18, 2013 Agency; Patrick Kilbride, U.S. Chamber of Mexico: Commitment to Security and Commerce Justice Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Ministry of the May 21, 2013 Interior, Mexico Public Security in Mexico and Policing Standards Ariel Moutsatsos, Embassy of Mexico; Carl Risheim, Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) in Mexico; Juan Salgado, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico; Duncan Wood, Mexico Institute

May 6, 2013 Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: A New View of Human Capital for the U.S., April 17, 2013 Mexico and Central America Quo Vadis? Recruitment and Contracting of Co-sponsors: Latin American Program and Migrant Workers and their Access to Social Migration Policy Institute Security Carlos Gutierrez, Citigroup; Eduardo Stein, Co-sponsored with the Latin American Former Vice President of Guatemala; James Program Jones, United States Ambassador to Mexico, Fabienne Venet Rebiffé, INEDIM; Norma 1993-1997; Luis Rubio, CIDAC; Demetrios G. Samaniego Breach, Universidad Nacional Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute; Autónoma de México (UNAM); Rachel Micah- Doris Meissner, Migration Policy Institute; Jones, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; Andrew Selee, Wilson Center Duncan Wood, Mexico Institute

12 April 12, 2013 February 15, 2013 Mexico Today Climate Change and Migration in Mexico: Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute; Luis Rubio, A Report Launch CIDAC; Carlos Elizondo, Centro de Investig- Co-sponsored with the Global Sustainability ación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Ariel and Resilience Program Moutsatsos, Embassy of Mexico; Agustin Elizabeth Deheza, Royal United Services Institute; Michael Werz, Center for American Barrios Gómez, Congress of Mexico; Edna Progress; Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Environmen- Jaime, México Evalúa tal Change and Security Program

February 27, 2013 February 12, 2013 Is the Border More Efficient? More Secure? Reforming the Ranks: Assessing Police – Progress and Challenges in Managing the Reform Efforts in Mexico U.S.-Mexico Border Ernesto López Portillo, Institute for Security Robert Bonner, PCIP-COMEXI Border and Democracy (Insyde); Juan Salgado Task Force; Andrés Rozental, Rozental Ibarra, Center for Research and Teaching in & Asociados; Chappell Lawson, MIT Economics (CIDE); John Bailey, Georgetown International Science and Technology University Initiatives; Abraham Lowenthal, University of Southern California; Jerrold D. Green, December 10, 2012 The Decisive Vote? How Latinos Voted and Pacific Council on International Policy;Carlos What it Means for Policy Heredia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Co-sponsored with the Latin American Económicas (CIDE); Alan Bersin, Depart- Program ment of Homeland Security; Duncan Wood, Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA; Dan Mexico Institute; Christopher Wilson, Mexico Restrepo, Obama presidential campaign; Institute; Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Con- servative Principles; Rodolfo Espino, Arizona February 26, 2013 State University; Roberto Suro, University Book Launch: U.S. Ambassadors to Mexico, of Southern California; Stephen Dinan, The The Relationship Through Their Eyes Washington Times John D. Negroponte, United States Ambas- sador to Mexico, 1989-1993; James Jones, December 05, 2012 United States Ambassador to Mexico, 1993- Wilson Center Congressional Briefing: 1997; Jeffrey Davidow, United States Ambas- “Fighting Organized Crime in Mexico by sador to Mexico, 1998-2002; Dolia Estévez, Reforming the Justice System” author and journalist Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute; Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General; February 21, 2013 Ana Laura Magaloni, Center for Economic Young and Undocumented: The New Research and Teaching (CIDE); Layda American Story Negretre, Producer “Presumed Guilty” Co-sponsored with the Latin American documentary Program and the Africa Program December 04, 2012 October 25, 2012 Judicial Reform in Mexico: Why it is Security and Economic Opportunity in Needed and Where Things Stand Sinaloa Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute; Catherine Mario López Valdés, Governor of Sinaloa Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General; Ernesto Canales, Canales y Asociados; Diana October 11, 2012 Negroponte, Brookings Institution; Rommel Access to Information and Accountability: Moreno, Office of Attorney General of the A Global Context State of Baja California, Mexico; Ana Laura Magaloni, Center for Economic Research Jacqueline Peschard, IFAI; Andrew Selee, and Teaching (CIDE); Layda Negretre, Mexico Institute; Catalina Botero, OAS Producer “Presumed Guilty” documentary; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Octavio Rodriguez, University of San Diego; Thomas Blanton, National Security Archive; Guillermo Zepeda, Program to Support Marcos Mendiburu, World Bank; Karen Security and Justice at USAID/Mexico; Finnegan, Office of Government Information Matthew C. Ingram, University of Albany, Services; Mauricio Merino Huerta, Centro de SUNY; Hugo Concha Cantú, Ministry of Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Interior (SEGOB/SETEC); Carolina Villadiego, Elio Villaseñor, Citizen’s Initiative for the Center for Judicial Studies in the Americas Promotion of the Culture of Dialogue; Oscar (CEJA) Chacón, National Alliance of Latin American

and Caribbean Communities; Patrice November 20, 2012 McDermott, Open the Government Competitors or Partners? U.S.-Mexico Trade Policy in an Era of Global Competi- tion September 17, 2012 Beatriz Leycegui, Instituto Tecnológico Reviewing the U.S.-Mexico Security Rela- Autónomo de México (ITAM); Francisco tionship Sánchez, U.S. Department of Commerce; Janet Napolitano, Department of Homeland Robert Pastor, American University; Security; Alejandro Poiré, Ministry of the Miriam Sapiro, Office of the U.S. Trade Interior, Mexico Representative September 14, 2012 November 14, 2012 A Film Screening of “Reportero” Tackling Crime and Violence in Mexico: The Bernardo Ruiz, Director and Producer of Critical Role of Citizens “Reportero;” Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute; Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute; David Shirk, Dolia Estévez, author and journalist; Adela University of San Diego; Steven Dudley, InSight Crime; Lucy Conger, freelance jour- Navarro, General Director, “Zeta;” Konstan- nalist and consultant tin Kakaes, The Economist; Tom Hundley, Senior Editor at the Pulitzer Center

14 September 11, 2012 Maureen Meyer, Washington Office on Latin The Peace Movement in Mexico: Efforts to America; Santiago A. Cantón, Partners for Bring Justice to the Victims of Violence in Human Rights the Country Javier Sicilia Zardain, Movement for Peace August 08, 2012 with Justice and Dignity in Mexico; Sergio The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Aguayo, Colegio de México; Eric L. Olson, Future of International Trade Mexico Institute; Joy Olson, Washington Co-sponsorship with the Canada Institute, Office on Latin America the Mexico Institute, the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, the Asia September 04, 2012 Program and the Latin American Program The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations (at the Laura Dawson, U.S. Embassy, Ottawa, Democratic National Convention) Canada; Demetrios J. Marantis, Office of Geoffrey Cowan, The Annenberg Retreat at the U.S. Trade Representative; Jeff Schott, Sunnylands; Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute; Peterson Institute for International Economics; Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to Edward Lincoln, George Washington the United States, 2007-2013; Bill Richardson, University; Jim Grueff, Trade Consultant; Former Governor of New Mexico; Antonio R. Linda Menghetti, Emergency Committee for Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles American Trade; Celeste Drake, Trade Policy Specialist, AFL-CIO; Stephanie Burgos, August 28, 2012 Oxfam America; Kent Hughes, Program on The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations (at the America and the Global Economy; Luz María Republican National Convention) De La Mora Sánchez, Ministry of Foreign Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute; Geoffrey Affairs, Mexico Cowan, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnyl- ands; Mel Martinez, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; July 23, 2012 David Dreier, Former United States Repre- Latino Leadership Project: A Latino Per- sentative for California’s 26th Congressional spective on U.S. Foreign Policy District; Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Antonia Hernández, California Community Mexico to the United States, 2007-2013; Barry Foundation, Latino Leadership Task Force; Jackson, Former Chief of Staff to Speaker of Solomon Trujillo, Trujillo Group Investments; the House John Boehner Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute

August 16, 2012 July 16, 2012 Under Pressure “From Above?” Human How to Build a 21st Century Border rights Violations by the Military and Civilian Alan Bersin, Department of Homeland Law Enforcement in Mexico Security; Chappell Lawson, MIT International Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, Centro de Inves- Science and Technology Initiatives; Erik Lee, tigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); the North American Center for Trans-border Studies; Christopher Wilson, Mexico Institute June 19, 2012 Our World, Paradoxes, Problems and the Need for Change Dr. José Narro Robles, National Autono- mous University of Mexico

June 18, 2012 The Americas’ Future in the Balance: Persis- tent Underfunding of Latino Communities across the Americas Diana Campoamor, Hispanics in Philan- thropy; Andrew Selee, Mexico Institute; Larry McGill, The Foundation Center; Carlos July 11, 2012 F. Ota, Hispanic Association on Corporate A Stronger Future: Policy Recommenda- Responsibility tions for U.S.-Mexico Relations Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican Ambassador to June 18, 2012 the United States 2007-2013; Jane Harman, Mexico’s 2012 Presidential Election and the Wilson Center; Andrew Selee, Mexico Nation’s Role in the World Institute; Geoffrey Cowan, The Annenberg Ambassador Rubén Beltrán Guerrero, Foundation Trust at Sunnylands; Rafael Presidential Campaign of Josefina Vázquez Fernández de Castro, Instituto Tecnológico Mota; Mr. Emilio Lozoya Austin, Presidential Autónomo de México (ITAM) Campaign of former Governor Enrique Peña Nieto; Ambassador Jorge Eduardo July 09, 2012 Navarrete López, Presidential Campaign of Mexico’s 2012 Election in Perspective: Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Mr. León Review and Analysis of the July 1st Krauze, Univision’s KMEX 34, Los Angeles Results Pablo Gutiérrez, Organization of American June 14, 2012 States; Dr. Jorge Buendía, Buendía & Laredo; Mexico’s Economic Future from the Per- Dr. Francisco E. González, John Hopkins spective of the Left University School of Advanced Interna- Fernando Turner Dávila, Presidential tional Studies; Dr. Joy Langston, Center for Campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE); (PRD) Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute

16 BRAZIL INSTITUTE

The Brazil Institute strives to further bilateral understanding by promoting informed dialogue between these two diverse and vibrant multiracial societies in five ways: by convening policy forums that stimulate nonpartisan reflection and debate on critical issues related to Brazil; in promoting and sponsoring meetings of academics and policymakers and disseminating their research; by participating in the broader effort to inform Americans about Brazil through lectures and interviews given by the Institute’s director; in ap- pointing leading Brazilianists as Wilson Center scholars; and by maintaining a comprehensive website devoted to Brazil-focused news, analysis, research, and reference materials.

17 BRAZIL INSTITUTE EVENTS May 22, 2013 May 09, 2013 A Conversation with Congressman Water Management, Health and Climate Henrique Eduardo Alves, Speaker of Adaptation in Barbados Brazil’s House of Representatives Bridgetown, Barbados Henrique Eduardo Alves, President of Co-sponsored with the University of the West the Brazil Chamber of Deputies; Anthony Indies – Cave Hill Campus Carmen Lacambra, Grupo Laera; Professor Harrington, Brazil Institute Advisory Board; Wayne Hunte, UWI Cave Hill; Adrian Monique Fridell, Brazil - U.S. Business Cashman, Water Resources Management Council CERMES; Basil Fernandez, Water Resources Authority (Jamaica); Sally Edwards Pan May 20, 2013 American Health Organization (Barbados); The GEF Looking Ahead Winfred Greaves, UWI Cave Hill; Inés Co-sponsored with George Mason Univer- Navarro González, Universidad Nacional sity and the Wilson Center’s Environmental Autónoma de México; Daniele Cesano, Change and Security Program Adapta Sertão Social Technologies for Naoko Iishii, Global Environment Facility; Climate Change; Andrew Downes, UWI Cave Thomas Lovejoy, H. John Heinz III Center for Hill; Hon. David Estwick, Ministry of Agri- Science, Economics and the Environment; culture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Blair A. Ruble, Wilson Center Global Sustain- Management; Christopher Sandrolini, U.S. Embassy to Barbados ability and Resilience Program April 10, 2013 May 15, 2013 Climate Change and Extreme Weather: The Rainforest Continent Business School Impacts on Public Health and Agriculture Co-sponsored with Institute of Advanced Co-sponsored with the Environmental Studies at the University of São Paulo Change and Security Program Ernesto Henrique Fraga Araujo, Embassy of William Hohenstein, U.S. Department of Brazil; Martin Grossmann, University of São Agriculture; Tom Karl, National Oceanic Paulo; Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); University; Maritta Koch-Weser, University of Catherine Thomasson, Physicians for Social São Paulo Responsibility; Paul Schopf, George Mason University May 15, 2013 April 03, 2013 Sustainability in the Amazon Cooperation in South America for the Co-Sponsored by: Environmental Change Promotion and Protection of Patents and and Security Program, Conservation Inter- Trademarks – the PROSUR Initiative national, and the University of São Paulo’s Co-sponsored with the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies Program, Canada Institute, and the Program Governor Camilo Capiberibe, Governor of on America and the Global Economy Amapá, Brazil; Maritta Koch-Weser, The Jorge Avila, Brazilian National Institute of Rainforest Business School Industrial Property (INP); José Luis Londoño, Delegation for Industrial Property, Colombia; 19 Konstantinos Georgaras; Canadian Intel- December 05, 2012 lectual Property Office (CIPO);Mark Guetlich, The World at 7 Billion: Building a Sustain- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office able Future Co-sponsored with the Environmental March 24-29, 2013 Change and Security Program and the Global Third Brazilian Congressional Study Mission Sustainability and Resilience Program on Innovation Suzanne Ehlers, Population Action Interna- Co-sponsored with the Institute of the tional; Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason Americas University; Matthew Erdman, USAID; Thomas Site visits and lectures took place in San Lovejoy, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Economics and the Environment; Sandeep Bathala, Environmental Change and Security February 19-20 Program, Global Health Initiative Adaptación al Cambio Climático en Colombia: Dirección y Roles November 20, 2012 Bogotá, Colombia Brazil’s Challenging 2013 Outlook Thomas Downing, Global Climate Adaption David Fleischer, University of Brasília; Partnership (GCAP); Mohamed Hamza, Clifford Young, IPSOS Public Affairs Brazil; GCAP; Fernanda Zermoglio, independent João Augusto de Castro Neves, Eurasia consultant; María Paz Cigarán, Libelula (Peru) Group; Matthew T. Taylor, American Univer- sity February 12, 2013 How to Improve Brazil’s Industrial Growth October 23, 2012 and Export Performance FAPESP Week: 2012 Co-sponsored with the Program on America Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Brazilian and the Global Economy Academy of Sciences and former President of Jose Guilherme Reis, World Bank; Otaviano UNICAMP Canuto, World Bank; Kent Hughes, Program on America and the Global Economy October 17, 2013 Managing Mountains for Ecological January 24, 2013 Services and Environmental Security The Political Challenges of Brazilian Co-sponsored with the Environmental President Dilma Rousseff Change and Security Program and the Global Co-sponsored with the Latin American Sustainability and Resilience Program Program Lisa Friedman, ClimateWire; John Furlow, Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, Univer- USAID; Andrew Taber, The Mountain sidade de Sao Paulo; Fabio Cereda, Embassy Institute; Paul Schopf, George Mason Univer- of Brazil; Mauricio Moura, The George sity; Ruth Greenspan Bell, World Resources Washington University Institute October 12, 2012 Mustafa Kibaroglu, Okan University; Monica Relations with China from the Perspective Herz, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; of Brazil and U.S. Global Businesses Michael Adler, Agence France-Presse News Co-sponsored with the Canada Institute Agency; Robert S. Litwak, International and the Kissinger Institute on China and the Security Studies United States Nelson Cunningham, McLarty Associates; J. September 05, 2012 Stapleton Roy, Kissinger Institute on China A Round-table on Brazil-U.S. Relations with and the United States; Sergio Amaral, China- Todd Chapman Brazil Business Council; Claudio Frischtak, Todd Chapman, United States Embassy in China-Brazil Business Council; Richard Brasília Lapper, Brazil Confidential and Financial Times; Erin Ennis, U.S.-China Business July 10, 2012 Council Private Sector Perspective on Brazil’s Energy and Infrastructure Challenge September 12, 2012 Co-sponsored with the Brazil-U.S. Business Rio+20: Impacts and Ways Forward Council Co-sponsored with the Environmental Carlos Cavalcanti, Federation of Industries of Change and Security Program the State of São Paulo; Christopher Garman, Michelle Lapinski, The Nature Conservancy; Eurasia Group; Reeve Woldford, Altrius Dr. Fred Boltz, Conservation International; Group Jacob Scherr, Natural Resources Defense Council; Reid Detchon, United Nations June 15, 2012 Foundation; Dann Sklarew, George Mason Brazil Forum Breakfast featuring Governor University Alckmin Co-sponsored with the U.S.-Brazil Business September 07, 2012 Council Will the Ongoing Nuclear Talks with Iran Geraldo Alckmin, Governor of the State of Yield Better Results than Past Efforts? São Paulo, Brazil Co-sponsored with Middle East Program Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council;

21 PUBLICATIONS

Books: violencia delincuencial en América Latina, Latin American Program, 2012. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Dolia Estévez. U.S. Ambassadors to Twenty-First Century, Wilson Center Press Mexico: The Relationship Through Their and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Eyes, Mexico Institute, 2013.

Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar, eds., Erik Lee, Christopher Wilson, Francisco Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty- Lara-Valencia, Carlos de la Parra, Rick First Century, Wilson Center Press and Van Schoik, Kristofer Patron-Soberano, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Eric L. Olson, and Andrew Selee, The State of the Border Report: A Compre- Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe C. hensive Analysis of the U.S.-Mexico Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritar- Border, Mexico Institute, El Colegio de ian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about la Frontera Norte, and Arizona State Uncertain Democracies, with a new University, May 2013. forward by Cynthia J. Arnson and Abraham F. Lowenthal, Johns Hopkins Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris University Press, new edition 2013. Meissner, and Eleanor Sohnen, “Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Lever- Peter Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., aging Migration & Human Capital in the Mexico & the United States: The Politics U.S., Mexico, and Central America,” Final of Partnership, Wilson Center Press and Report of the Regional Migration Study Lynne Rienner, 2013. Group, Woodrow Wilson Center and Migration Policy Institute, May 2013. Reports: Luis Rubio, Mexico Matters: Change in A Stronger Future: Policy Recommenda- Mexico and Its Impact Upon the United tions for U.S.-Mexico Relations, Mexico States, Mexico Institute, 2013. Institute and The Annenberg Trust at Sunnylands, July 2012. Christopher E. Wilson, Eric L. Olson, Miguel R. Salazar, Andrew D. Selee, Carlos Basombrío. Qué Hemos Hecho: Duncan Wood, New Ideas for a New Reflexiones sobre respuestas y políticas Era: Policy Options for the Next Stage in públicas frente al incremento de la U.S.-Mexico Relations, 2013.

22 Bulletins: Steven Dudley, “Transnational Crime in Mexico and Central America: Its Cynthia J. Arnson and Marcelo Bergman, Evolution and Role in International “Taxation and Equality in Latin America,” Migration,” Wilson Center and Migration June 2012. Policy Institute, November 2012.

Genaro Arriagada and José Woldenberg, Emily Edmonds-Poli, “The Effects of “Report on Venezuela’s Presidential Drug-War Related Violence on Mexico’s Elections 2012.” Press and Democracy,” 2013.

David R. Ayón, “The Legal Side of Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara, “La Difusión Mexican Immigration,” June 2012. Transnacional del Crimen Organizado y Cómo Contener su Expansión,” April Bruce Bagley, “Drug Trafficking and 2013. (English version also available.) Organized Crime in the Americas: Major Trends in the Twenty-First Century,” July Colby Goodman, “U.S. Firearms Traffick- 2012. ing to Guatemala and Mexico,” 2013.

Carlos Basombrio, “Región Andina Matthew C. Ingram, “Criminal Procedure Leyes, Penas y Cárceles: ¿Cuánto Reform in Mexico: Where Things Stand Sirven (y Cuánto No) para la Seguridad Now,” 2013. Ciudadana?” October 2012. James E. Mahon, “Tax Incidence and Tax Carlos Basombrio Iglesias, Verónica Reforms in Latin America,” 2012. Colón-Rosario, Christine Zaino, “Opciones para Mejorar la Seguridad Marinna Olinger, “La Difusión del Crimen Ciudadana y Responder a la Violencia Organizado en Brasil a Partir de los Años Juvenil en Centro América,” March 2013 2000,” April 2013.

Carlos Basombrío and Lucía Dammert, Eric L. Olson, “Mexico’s 2012 Elections: “Seguridad and Populismo Penal en Key Issues and Critical Questions Now American Latina,” March 2013 (English and Beyond,” June 2012. summary, “Changing the Approach to Crime and Violence in Latin America,” Eric L. Olson and Erik Lee, “The State also available) of Security in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region,” August 2012. Lucia Dammert, “Seguridad democrática: de las propuestas a la implementación Luis Pásara, “International Support for de políticas públicas; Relatoría seminario Justice Reform in Latin America: Worth- regional del cono sur”, 2013. while or Worthless?” September 2012. Daniel M. Rico, “La Dimensión Pamela Starr, “Sharing Space with Our Internacional del Crimen Organizado Hemispheric Partners: A Latino Perspec- en Colombia: Las Bacrim, sus Rutas y tive on U.S. Policy Toward Latin America,” Refugios,” April 2013. 2012.

Sergio Romero-Hernández, “Solar Energy Vito Tanzi, “Tax Reform In Latin America: Potential in Mexico’s Northern Border A Long-Term Assessment,” May 2013. States,” 2012. Duncan Wood, “A New Beginning for Gema Santamaría, “La Difusión y Con- Mexican Oil: Principles and Recommen- tención del Crimen Organizado en la dations for a reform in Mexico’s National Subregión México-Centroamérica,” April Interest,” 2012. 2013. Christopher Wilson and Erik Lee, “The Andrew Selee, Cynthia J. Arnson, and State of Trade, Competitiveness and Eric L. Olson, “Crime and Violence in Economic Well-being in the U.S.-Mexico Mexico and Central America: An Evolving Border Region,” June 2012. but Incomplete U.S. Policy Response,” Wilson Center and Migration Policy Institute, January 2013. Policy Briefs:

Paulo Sotero, ed., “Report on Second Cynthia J. Arnson, “Setting Priorities Brazilian Congressional Study Mission on for U.S. Policy in Latin America,” Wilson Innovation,” Winter 2013. Center, 2013.

Paulo Sotero, ed., “Report on the Brazil- Paulo Sotero, “Pursuing A Productive United States Judicial Dialogue,” Winter Relationship Between the U.S. and Brazil,” 2013. Wilson Center, 2012.

Paulo Sotero, ed., “Could the Brazil- Christopher Wilson and Andrew Selee, Turkey Mediation on Iran Have Resulted “A New Agenda with Mexico,” Wilson in a Better Outcome?” Winter 2013. Center, 2012.

Saulo Santos de Souza, “The Political Economy of Tax Reform in Latin America: A Critical Review,” 2013. THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO

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