Michael Shifter.

This Spanish-language program will discuss the Obama administration’s foreign policy objectives in Latin America, highlighting the positive aspects of engagement that have already occurred and the partnerships the administration hopes to maintain and develop in the region. Our guest will be Michael Shifter. The webcast will take place on June 11 at 11:30 a.m. EDT (15:30 GMT) and will last for 90 minutes.

Michael Shifter is vice president for policy and director of the Andean program at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. Since 1993, he has been an adjunct professor of Latin American politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Shifter writes and comments widely on U.S.-Latin American relations and hemispheric affairs. His recent articles have appeared in major U.S. and Latin American publications such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Journal of Democracy, the Harvard International Review, Clarín, O Estado de S. Paulo and Cambio. He is also co-editor, along with Jorge Domínguez, of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Since 1996, he has regularly testified before Congress about U.S. policy toward Latin America.

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