ALVARO URIBE Coming to DC-- Ay Dios Mio!!

[magbana]

A Conversation on Colombia with President Alvaro Uribe Vélez

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8:30 am — 10:00 am

The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

On September 18, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings will host a conversation with President Alvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia. President Uribe will discuss the U.S.-Colombia relationship, including economic and security challenges such as his administration’s fight against the illegal drug trade and prospects for the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

A panel discussion will follow President Uribe’s remarks and will include Ambassador Carla Hills, chairman and chief executive officer of Hills & Company, and former U.S. trade representative, and Mauricio Cardenas, director of the Latin America Initiative and a senior fellow at Brookings. Carlos Pascual, vice president and director of Foreign Policy at Brookings will provide introductory remarks and will moderate the discussion. Following the program, President Uribe and the panelists will take audience questions.

Moderator




Carlos Pascual

Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy
The Brookings Institution




Featured Speaker

President Alvaro Uribe Vélez

President of Colombia




Panelists




Carla Hills

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Hills & Company




Mauricio Cardenas

Director, Latin America Initiative

The Brookings Institution






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[Judi Lynn]

1. Gee, magbana, don't know if it's worth the effort, getting into a decontamination suit,

going to hear Uribe, then going through the decontamination bath afterwards!

[magbana]

6. HOPE CSPAN WILL COVER IT . . .

but even if i stay home to watch it, some of the contamination may get through and i might have to get a series of tetnaus shots! i am certain cspan will cover it and show it later in the evening.

[EFerrari]

9. I hope they do "cover it". It's right in line with their Fascist Friday theme.n/t

[Judi Lynn]

10. Let us know if you got to go.

By the way, I think I read Uribe went to school in England. Lotta good it did him!

[EFerrari]

2. I wonder if some flunky attached to this parasite will be on Washington Journal

that morning.

[roody]

3. Thursday. A good day to protest.

[magbana]

5. URIBE EVENT CHANGED TO FRIDAY, SEPT. 19

A Conversation on Colombia with President Alvaro Uribe Vélez

Friday, September 19, 2008, 8:00 am — 10:00 am

The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

On September 19, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings will host a conversation with President Alvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia. President Uribe will discuss the U.S.-Colombia relationship, including economic and security challenges such as his administration’s fight against the illegal drug trade and prospects for the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

A panel discussion will follow President Uribe’s remarks and will include Ambassador Carla Hills, chairman and chief executive officer of Hills & Company, and former U.S. trade representative, and Moisés Naím, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. Lael Brainard, vice president and director of Global Economy and Development at Brookings will provide introductory remarks. Mauricio Cárdenas, director of Brookings’s Latin America Initiative, will moderate the discussion. Following the program, President Uribe and the panelists will take audience questions.

Introduction




Lael Brainard

Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development
The Brookings Institution




Moderator

Mauricio Cárdenas

Director, Latin America Initiative

The Brookings Institution




Featured Speaker

President Alvaro Uribe Vélez

President of Colombia




Panelists




Carla Hills

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Hills & Company




Moisés Naím

Editor-in-chief

Foreign Policy Magazine



To RSVP, please call the Brookings Office of Communications at 202.797.6105, or visit http://onlinepressroom.net/brookings/new

[Bacchus39]

7. be sure to give us a full objective report n/t

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[EFerrari]

8. Thanks for the update!

[Judi Lynn]

4. I think there's one DU'er who'll either be there or know people who will!

Hope she'll post a message on it if she goes.

[magbana]

11. why sit through Uribe's speech when you can PROTEST him at noon friday!

Please join CISPES and others for this protest tomorrow at noon outside the National Press Club


FTAs are creating a global race to the bottom in terms of worker rights, environmental protections, food & product saftey and democracy itself. President Uribe's Colombia, where social justice organizers are killed for their work and impunity reigns supreme, is a pipedream for exploitative corporations and a case in point that FTAs devastate human rights, sustainability and democracy.



Union Murders. Extrajudicial Killings. Violent Displacement. Destruction of the Amazon.

The US-Colombia FTA Will Only Make Matters Worse.



No More NAFTAs (or CAFTAs)! No FTA with Colombia!

Protest Uribe's Misinformation Lobby & Visit



What: Picket to Denounce Uribe's Pro-FTA Lobby Visit and Deceptions

Where: National Press Club - 529 14th Street NW (Metro Center Metro Station) - Luncheon w/ Pres. Uribe

When: THIS Friday September, 19th 12pm Noon (SHARP!) until 1pm





The Uribe government just sent an 80 person delegation to lobby Congress in a last ditch effort to pass a new NAFTA deal. But we won't let Congress be fooled. The US-Colombia FTA will hurt workers, devastate small farmers, Afro-Colombians & indigenous communities, and will cause more displacement that forces migration and feeds illegal armed groups and drug traffickers.



Contact: James Ploeser at Public Citizen for more info: [e-mail] - 202-454-5111