Latin America (Video)

Join Mexico’s visionary leaders for the first of a four-part series celebrating the excellence of Mexico and generating a rare and open dialogue on the country’s future. Tonight: novelists Cristina Rivera Garza and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, and sculptor Sebastián share how their arts inspire and reinforce Mexican identity. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20693]

Join Mexico’s visionary leaders for the first of a four-part series celebrating the excellence of Mexico and generating a rare and open dialogue on the country’s future. Tonight: novelists Cristina Rivera Garza and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, and sculptor Sebastián share how their arts inspire and reinforce Mexican identity. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20693]

Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile from 2006 to February 2010 and South America’s first woman president elected in her own right, discusses the changes in Latin America. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19245]

Policy and political perspectives on managing the interconnected relationships among the United States, Canada and Mexico. Series: "Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley (IGS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 18608]

Daniel Alarcón is the Associate Editor of “Etiqueta Negra,” an award-winning monthly magazine published in his native Lima, Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin America Studies at UC Berkeley. In 2007, the journal Granta named Alarcón one of the Best Young American Novelists. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18506]

Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu shares the challenges she has faced in maintaining peace in Guatemala with the audience gathered by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 17670]

Professors Stefano Varese of UC Davis and Rodrigo Montoya of UC San Diego discuss the impact of globalization on the indigenous populations of the Amazon in this special edition of HemiScope sponsored by the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Series: "HemiScope" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 16450]

Luis Urrea, author of “The Devil’s Highway” and “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” talks about how his own search for identity provided fuel for his writing in this interview with host Dean Nelson, as part of the 2009 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 15698]

Enrique Garcia, Latin America's leading international banker, discusses prospects for economic development and political stability in South America, with Jeffrey Davidow, former US Ambassador to Mexico and now president of the Institute of the Americas. Series: "Encuentros" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14188]

Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, argues that the principal threat to democracy in Latin America is that most of its governments do not have the power or conditions to rule effectively. He calls on the region to strengthen its political institutions,which he maintains will create more social and economic equality over time. Insulza is the guest of Jeffrey Davidow, the former US Ambassador to Mexico and now president of the Institute of the Americas. Series: "Encuentros" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13674]