Wednesday, December 31, 2003 | Susan Segal | The Washington Times
Ask many observers of Latin America and the Caribbean why the hemisphere is floundering, and they will say that the United States has neglected the region since September 11 and the war in Iraq, thus leading to a downward spiral. It is time to put such superficial analysis aside.
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Speaking at the 2002 Washington Conference on the Americas, First Deputy Managing Director at International Monetary Fund, Anne Krueger, discuses the economic future of the Americas. Krueger addresses the economic "slow down" in the Americas and elaborates on the crisis in Argentina.
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At the 2001 Washington Conference on the Americas, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohler, discussed how the International Monetary Fund intends to become more efficient in helping to resolve and avoid financial crises. He later stated the importance of getting investment capital from the rest of the world in impoverished countries.
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Speaking at the 2000 Washington Conference on the Americas, President Bill Clinton discusses the importance of open trade within the Americas and the benefits of continuing forward to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005. Clinton also focuses on Columbia's increasing drug industry issue and stresses the importance of the United States helping the Colombian government.
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At the 26th Washington Conference on the Americas, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, Secretary General of the Organization of the American States, speaks about the results of the Cartagena Trade Ministerial. He discusses the integration of the Americas and the steps we must take to ensure a successful completion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005.
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At the 25th Washington Conference on the Americas, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, speaks of the financial crisis in Mexico. Camdessus discusses why it occurred, how it was solved, and the significance of the first major economic crisis of the 21st century.
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This exhibition catalogue takes a look at three Latin American painters living in New York: Alicia Creus, Raquel Rabinovich, and Francisco Sutil. The catalogue includes texts by Fatima Bercht.
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This catalogue by Norman Fiering and Susan L Newbury focuses on the earliest books published in the British colonies that became the United States, with a checklist of the colonial Latin American books included in the exhibition The Book in the Americas.
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This exhibition catalogue examines 100 spectacular pieces from one of the largest collections of art from the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. Objects include masks, textiles, rattles, staffs, charms, and vessels.
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