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Facing pointed questions from a Haitian advocacy group in an election-season visit, the president of the Dominican Republic implored Latin American nations to find a balance “between neo-liberalism and neo-populism” in politics and economics to a packed auditorium last night...
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna’s speech, titled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example,” proceeded without turbulence, and students who attended a private luncheon with the president beforehand said that it, too, was calm...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations invited Fernández—who is currently in his second term and running for re-election in 2008—to the school, with co-sponsorship from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...
...Harvard, in my experience, has tried to avoid, at least in the case of Latin America, allowing people running for election to visit,” said Steven R. Levitsky, the John L. Loeb associate professor of the social sciences. “In Latin America, a visit to Harvard is usually seen as an electoral benefit...
...today, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez Reyna will give a presentation in the Tsai Auditorium at CGIS South entitled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example.” He will probably talk about Dominican Republic’s recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands...