Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)

Past Events

Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan Nobel Laureate, at LIU, 2001

Haiti Bicentennial, 2003

Brazilian speaker Jorge Zaverucha on the role of the military, 2004

Former Guatemalan minister Alfonso Bauer Paiz, with Raul Molina, on 1954 CIA intervention, 2004

Hamlet Hermann and Alan McPherson on 1965 Dominican Crisis, 2005

Book presentations by Louis Parascandola and Patrice McSherry, 2006

Discussion of the Non-Aligned Movement with representatives of Cuba and South Africa, November 2006.

Maya Cosmovision, December 2006.

The Dirty Wars In Latin America, April 2007

The Universal Declaration of Indigenous Rights: A Discussion, October 2007

Presentation by Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales, January 2008

Uruguayan Human Rights Researcher Oscar Destouet, "The Mysteries of the Ministry: Secret Documents," February 2008

Author Bart Jones on Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan Revolution, March 2008

Author and activist James Cockcroft on indigenous peoples rising in Bolivia and Ecuador, October 2008

Film Showing on Guatemala, November 2008

"El Salvador: Past, Present and Future," March 2009