¿Hugo Who? Defining a President, His Policies and the People of Venezuela

¿Hugo Who?
Defining a President, His Policies and the People of Venezuela

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
7:00 PM
School of the Arts

Prince Street and University Avenue
Rochester

Free and open to the public.

¿Hugo Who? is a forum to discuss issues surrounding the politics of
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, particularly the controversy over U.S. involvement in Venezuelan policies and the international competition for oil. Issues and alternative views surrounding Venezuelan politics will be discussed, and a broad spectrum of opinions on this topic will be presented.
Panelists:
Charles Hardy, former ordained Catholic priest who spent eight years
living in a cardboard and tin shack in the barrios of Caracas. His new book is Cowboy in Caracas: A Personal Account of Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution (available for sale at the forum).
Daniel Hellinger, professor of political science at Webster University
in St. Louis, Missouri and a leading scholar on Venezuela. Author of Venezuela: Tarnished Democracy (1991) and Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict (2003).
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, Executive Director of the Venezuelan
Information Office in Washington, DC, dedicated to educating the public about contemporary Venezuela. Editor of Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People’s Democracy.

John Locke, videographer, is a member of the Rochester Committee on Latin America and an assistant professor at Ithaca College. He produced, directed and edited Strait Talk: Politics, Propaganda and Perceptions Across the Florida Straits, a documentary on US/Cuban relations. John plans to videotape this conference and use the video to help spread the truth about Venezuela.
For more information, please call 585-234-9908