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...Taught/Tutor: Spanish A (academic year 05-06), Spanish 155: “Inventing Cultural and Political Myths in Latin America” (spring 06), Spanish 90m: “Inventando Latinoamérica: Neruda, Asturias y Paz” (fall 08), Spanish 65: Bilingual Arts (spring 09), tutor in History and Literature concentration...
...SEAS has partnered with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies' Brazil Studies Program to organize a field course for SEAS students in Brazil from January 7th to January 21st, 2010. The course will bring together professors and undergraduates from both Harvard and Brazil. The program will include both lectures and hands-on activities, and the web site says activities could include visiting the country’s largest hydroelectric dam or oil exploration and extraction sites. And don't worry if you spent too much time taking Bioengineering to dabble in Portuguese—all the activities will...
...case, the official shift in the treatment of Posada will most likely enhance the hemisphere's early optimistic mood about President Obama when he lands in Trinidad next week. "This will certainly be construed by Latin America as a positive step," says Daniel Erikson, a senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, in Washington, and the author of The Cuba Wars. "The region sees the Posada case as one of the worst examples of a U.S. double standard regarding the rule of law, a subject we often lecture Latin America about...
...extradition in Havana and Caracas. Though it urged Obama to go further than mere perjury charges against "the hemisphere's most famous terrorist," the Cuban government's official newspaper, Granma, on Thursday called Posada's indictment "a surprising strategic change." (Read "What Chávez Win Means for Latin American Democracy...
Still, Obama can add the Posada indictment to the list of fence-mending planks he's taking to Trinidad - most of them involving Cuba, which has shaped up to be the central focus of the summit. Most Latin American leaders consider a change in Washington's Cuba policy - including the 47-year-old trade embargo - to be a sine qua non for improving hemispheric relations in general and the strongest indication that the U.S. is willing to deal with Latin America with the same multilateral, dialogue-based approach that Obama pledged at the G-20 summit this month in London...