Latin American Democracy Forum
Mexico City, Mexico
Tuesday, October 12 through Thursday, October 14, 2010
Agenda
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