The Secretariat


Latin American Democracy Forum

Mexico City, Mexico
Tuesday, October 12 through Thursday, October 14, 2010

Agenda

Useful Information

Latin American Democracy Forum

Monday, 11

  • 5:00 p.m – 6:30 p.m.
    Inaugural Session

    Felipe Calderón
    José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the OAS
    Rebeca Grynspan
    Leonardo Valdés
    José Narro Robles

Tuesday, 12

  • 9:30 a.m – 11 a.m.
    Presentation of the Second Report on Democracy in Latin America

    José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the OAS
    Heraldo Muñoz, Assistant Secretary-General of UNDP
    Dante Caputo, Special Advisor to the OAS Secretary General
    José Antonio Ocampo, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
    Moderator: Magdy Martínez-Solimán
  • 11:15 a.m. –12:45 p.m.
    Democracy of the XXI Century in Latin America

    Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan Politician, Journalist and Economist
    Jorge Montaño, Vice Chair of the Mexican Council on International Affairs
    Carlos Salinas
    Moderator: Mónica González
  • 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
    Media and Freedom of Expression

    Catalina Botero, OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
    Ricardo Kirschbaum, General Editor of the daily newspaper El Clarín
    Jaime Abello, Director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberamericano
    Raúl Trejo Delarbre, Investigador, Institute for Social Investigations
    Moderator: José Zepeda
  • 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
    Electoral Competence:  New Circumstances and Challenges in the XXI Century

    Manuel Alcántara, Professor, University of Salamanca
    José Woldenberg, Director of NEXOS magazine
    Daniel Zovatto, Regional Director for Latin America, International IDEA – Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
    Pablo Gutiérrez, Director of the OAS Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation
    Beatriz Paredes
    Moderator: Alfredo Figueroa
  • 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
    What does a citizens’ democracy imply for women?

    Macarita Elizondo, IFE Electoral Counselor
    Otilia Lux de Coti, Guatemalan Politician and Social Leader
    Epsy Campbell, Costa Rican Politician and Economist, former Candidate to the Presidency
    Constanza Moreira, Uruguayan Political Analyst, Sociologist and Philosopher
    Carmen Colazo
    María Jimena Duzán
    Moderator: Lorenzo Córdova

Wednesday, 13

  • 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
    Democracy, Poverty and Inequality

    Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary
    Arturo Núñez, Senator of the Republic of Mexico
    Victor Rico, Secretary for Political Affairs of the OAS
    Isidro Soloaga
    Rodolfo Terragno, argentine politician and lawyer, former Senator and journalist
    Moderator: Jossette Altmann Borbon
  • 11:15 a.m. ­– 12:45 p.m.
    Power, State and Democracy

    Andrés Rodríguez, Argentine Union Leader
    Carlos Slim, Majority Partner of the Carso Group, owner of TELMEX
    Ana María San Juan, CAF Coordinator on Security, State and Democracy
    Carlos Mesa, former President of Bolivia
    Gerardo Munck, Expert on Political Regimes and Democracy in Latin America
    Moderator: Juan Pablo Corlazzoli
  • 2:00 p.m. ­– 3:30 p.m.
    Security, State and Democracy

    Francisco Rojas, FLACSO Secretary General
    León Arslanian, former Judge of the Court of Appeals in Criminal and Correctional Matters of the Federal Capital District, Argentina
    Santiago Cantón, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
    Armand Peschard, Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    Moderator: Alejandro Rubido
  • 3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
    Presentation of the FLACSO Study:  “Report on Governance and Democratic Coexistence”

    Simón Pachano, FLACSO Investigator
    Francisco Valdés
    Agustín Castilla, PAN
    Emilio Chuayffet, PRI
    Jesús Zambrano, PRD
    Luis Maldonado
    Manuel Rojas
    Moderator: Francisco Rojas Aravena, FLACSO Secretary General
  • 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
    The economy: a debate for technocrats or for citizens?

    Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, former Finance Secretary of Mexico
    Nora Lustig, Professor, George Washington University
    María Antonieta Bonilla, former Minister of Public Finance of Guatemala
    Moderator: Bernard Labatut

Thursday, 14

  • 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
    Our Democracy

    Enrique Iglesias, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat
    Julio María Sanguinetti, former President of Uruguay
    Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
    Moderator: José Octavio Bordón
  • 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
    Conclusions

    Dante Caputo, OAS
    Alvaro Pinto
    José Ignacio Piña
    Leonardo Valdés, Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) of Mexico