2004 PROGRAM REPORT T 2004 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS R E Are Pleased to Present a Summary Overview of the Inter-American Dialogue’S Work in 2004
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2INTER - AMERICAN0 DIALOGUE04 2004 PROGRAM REPORT t 2004 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS r e are pleased to present a summary overview of the Inter-American Dialogue’s work in 2004. The Dialogue has become an increasingly visible and influential presence in Washington and W in Latin America. No other non-governmental institution has more effectively engaged the U.S. Congress on hemispheric affairs, or is more regularly quoted in the U.S. and Latin American media about inter-American issues. This year, former president of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former U.S. trade representative Carla Hills chaired a Dialogue task force that produced “Agenda for the po Americas 2005,” a widely cited report offering recommendations to revitalize U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean. e The Dialogue’s extensive work on Colombia and Venezuela provides authoritative and balanced policy assessments of the challenges confronting those countries. Our forums and publications on remittances have broken new ground. We are an active voice in debates about Haiti and Cuba—and have helped R keep Washington consistently well-informed about developments in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. We have worked for several years to keep issues of press freedom, media responsibility, and access to informa- tion on the agenda—both in Washington and throughout the region. The Dialogue is shaping policy and action on educational reform in many countries. We are also working hard to focus attention on the hemispheric trade agenda—and to seek bipartisan support for U.S. economic cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean. We are grateful for the support of a wide circle of friends, associates, corporate partners, and public and private donors, which is vital to sustain the Inter-American Dialogue’s work and its efforts to improve the quality of debate and decision making in hemispheric affairs and to build stronger cooperation in the Americas. We look forward to an even more intense set of activities in 2005. CONTENTS gram Program Highlights Funding Sources Linowitz Forum . 2 Foundations . 19 U.S. Policy . 2 Governments . 19 o Trade and Economics. 7 International Organizations . 19 Democratic Governance. 9 Corporate Partners / Corporate Circle . 20 Social Policy . 10 Associates . 21 Other Exchanges . 12 Other Individual Contributors. 23 Corporate Programs . 13 Members . 24 Publications . 14 Staff . 25 Pr Financial Report. 18 Board of Directors . 27 Linowitz Forum administration officials, leading experts, and visiting officials from the region. The Linowitz Forum brings the Dialogue’s members together in Washington once The CMWG hosted discussions on the follow- U.S. security every two years to discuss the most impor- ing topics on Capitol Hill: is at stake in Latin tant issues in hemispheric affairs. The 2004 “ Forum—the fourteenth time that Dialogue Andean Development Corporation America. members have met in plenary session— (CAF) conference on trade and invest- focused primarily on two key themes, the ment in the Americas Agenda for the state of free trade negotiations in the hemi- ” Americas 2005, Central American Free Trade Agreement sphere and the troubled situation of the Report of the U.S. Andean nations. The Dialogue will issue Policy Task Force a policy report drawing on these discus- All in the Family, a report of the Dialogue sions that will review the main challenges Task Force on Remittances in hemispheric relations, discuss alternative courses of action, and offer recommenda- U.S.-Brazil relations tions for policy based on the consensus of our members. (See page 24 and 25 for lists of UNDP report on democracy in Inter-American Dialogue members.) Latin America U.S. Policy U.S. policy toward Colombia U.S. Policy Task Force Report of the Colin Powell-chaired Commission for Assistance to a The Dialogue assembled a special 20-person Free Cuba task force on U.S. Policy, chaired by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Carla Hills. The task Trade and investment links between the force focused on three broad issues of region- U.S. South and Central America wide importance: economic integration, democratic governance, and security. It issued Women and Global Leadership, a report of its final report in February 2005 directed at the Dialogue’s network of women leaders the incoming U.S. administration. Congressional participants included Published: Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN), Hillary Agenda for the Americas 2005, Report of the Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Chris Dodd (D- U.S. Policy Task Force, Inter-American CT), Bob Graham (D-FL), Mary Landrieu Dialogue, March 2005. (D-LA), and Paul Sarbanes (D-MD); and Representatives Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Congressional Members Working Group John Boozman (R-AK), Henry Brown (CMWG) (R-SC), Phil English (R-PA), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), James Leach The Congressional Members Working (R-IA), Sue Myrick (R-NC), Mark Souder Group hosted nine Dialogue sessions on (R-IN), Tom Petri (R-WI), Jerry Weller Capitol Hill in 2004. Over 35 members of (R-IL), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), John Congress—from both the Senate and the Conyers (D-MI), Jim Davis (D-FL), Bill House of Representatives—participated Delahunt (D-MA), Cal Dooley (D-CA), in one or more meetings. Four of those Sam Farr (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-NY), sessions were the CMWG’s flagship Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Sander events—off-the-record dinners on Levin (D-MI), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Jim Capitol Hill with members of Congress, McDermott (D-WA), Robert Menendez INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE 2004 Program Report 2 (D-NJ), Jim Moran (D-VA), Major Owens “U.S. Presidential Elections, Foreign Policy (D-NY), David Price (D-NC), Charles and Latin America,” by Michael Shifter, Rangel (D-NY), Hilda Solis (D-CA), and published by the Woodrow Wilson Center, OAS Maxine Waters (D-CA). October 2004. involvement provides “ Congressional Staff Working Group “Kerry ganó por knockout,” by Peter Hakim, vital international (CSWG) El Espectador (Colombia), October 3, 2004. legitimacy to the This year, the Dialogue inaugurated a new “The Crucial Role of the Latino Vote in US demobilization series on Capitol Hill directed at legislative Presidential Elections,” by Michael Shifter, staff. The group assembled nine times in 2004, FOCAL Point: Spotlight on the Americas, process. and met with Vice President Eduardo Stein of September 2004. Guatemala; Prime Minister Gerard Latortue of Haiti; and OAS Assistant Secretary “Reconciliation in Latin America: A Fine Turning Point in ” General Luigi Einaudi, among others. Balance,” by Michael Shifter and Vinay Colombia? Report of Colombia Working Group Jawahar, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Inter-American Legislative Network Summer/Fall 2004. The Dialogue held the fifth meeting of “Tracing the Roots of Anti-Americanism its Legislative Network in San Salvador, in Latin America,” book review by Michael El Salvador. Four U.S. Congress mem- Shifter, Georgetown Journal of International bers joined seventeen Central American Affairs, Summer/Fall 2004. legislators to discuss the future of the Central American Free Trade Agreement “De Lincoln a Bush, pasando por Reagan y (CAFTA). Salvadoran Economy Minister Clinton,” by Michael Shifter, Ideele (Peru), Miguel Lacayo, Chief Nicaraguan CAFTA May 2004. Negotiator Carlos Sequeira, Costa Rican Trade Minister Alberto Trejos, Assistant “Crecerá el temor,” by Peter Hakim, El USTR Matt Niemeyer and business and Espectador (Colombia), March 14, 2004. labor leaders joined the exchange. President Francisco Flores of El Salvador hosted a “United States: Latin America Policy,” by dinner and President-elect Antonio Saca Michael Shifter and Vinay Jawahar, Oxford addressed the legislators. Analytica Daily Brief, March 11, 2004. Published: “The U.S. and Latin America through “Looking Away as a Democracy Dies,” the Lens of Empire,” by Michael Shifter, by Michael Shifter, Los Angeles Times, Current History, February 2004. December 28, 2004. “U.S.-Latin American relations post 9–11,” “U.S. and Spain: Focus on common foreign- by Peter Hakim, Great Decisions (Foreign policy goals,” by Marifeli Pérez-Stable, The Policy Association), January 2004. Miami Herald, December 9, 2004. The Andean Region “¿En que se parecen Bush y Chávez?” by Michael Shifter, Ideelemail (Peru), The Colombia Working Group—a select November 2004. and diverse group of analysts and former policy officials from Colombia, other Latin “Latin America/U.S.: Policy continuity,” American countries, Europe, Canada, and by Michael Shifter and Vinay Jawahar, the United States—met in Bogotá in April Oxford Analytica Latin America Daily Brief, and again in Washington in December with November 11, 2004. the goal of generating creative ideas and INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE 3 2004 Program Report proposals to help shape thought and action and Vinay Jawahar, Columbia Journal of on Colombia in constructive ways. International Affairs, Fall 2004. Michael Shifter testified on “Aid to “La visita de Bush a Colombia,” by Critics worry Michael Shifter, El Espectador (Colombia), Colombia—the European Role in the that improvements Fight Against Narco-Terrorism,” at a November 22, 2004. “ hearing before the House Committee in security have been on International Relations, Western “Aid to Colombia: The European Role Hemisphere Subcommittee. in the Fight Against Narco-terrorism,” accompanied by the by Michael Shifter, testimony before introduction of non- The Dialogue hosted the following Andean the House Committee on International country leaders: former president of Peru Relations, Subcommittee on the Western democratic measures Alan García; Economy Minister Mauricio Hemisphere, November 18, 2004. Pozo of Ecuador; Finance Minister in Colombia. “The International Dimension of Alberto Carrasquilla of Colombia; Andean Reelection,” by Vinay Jawahar, El Espectador Community Secretary General Allan (Colombia), July 25, 2004. Michael Shifter with Wagner of Peru; chief of the OAS obser- ” Vinay Jawahar, Journal vation mission for the Colombian peace “Like FDR, Uribe Seeks Reelection,” by of International Affairs process Sergio Caramagna; former ambas- Michael Shifter, The Miami Herald, May sador of Venezuela to the United Nations 16, 2004.