NYU’s Jorge Castañeda, Columbia University Provost John Coatsworth, and Arturo Valenzuela, a senior advisor on Latin America at Covington and Burling LLP, will be the featured speakers at “Trump, Mexico, and Latin America: A Discussion on the Regional Consequences of the U.S. Election,” on Tues., Dec. 13.
NYU’s Jorge Castañeda, former foreign minister of Mexico, Columbia University Provost John Coatsworth, a leading scholar of Latin American economic and international history, and Arturo Valenzuela, a senior advisor on Latin America at Covington and Burling LLP, will be the featured speakers at “Trump, Mexico, and Latin America: A Discussion on the Regional Consequences of the U.S. Election,” on Tues., Dec. 13, 5 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place).
Castañeda, who served as foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003, is a global distinguished professor at NYU and has authored Ex-Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, among other works.
Coatsworth, whose publications include the co-edited volumes Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare and Development, 1750–2000 and Images of Mexico in the United States, was previously dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Valenzuela served as assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the State Department in the Obama Administration and in the Clinton White House as special assistant to the president and senior director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council.
An RSVP to the event, which is sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is required. For more information, please call 212.998.8686.
Reporters wishing to attend must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu. Photo ID required for entry. Space limited to availability.
The conversation will be in English.
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