Abstract
Public Discussion
The Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, the Department of
Politics and International Relations and UJ Institutional Advancement
in partnership with the UJ Library invites you to a discussion on
Twenty-First Century Latin American
Governments: Challenges to the Status Quo
The ALBA group of countries are celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2014.
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) is an intergovernmental
platform promoting the social, political and economic integration of the countries of
Latin America and the Caribbean. The member countries are: Antigua and Barbuda,
Cuba, Bolivia, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, San Vincent and the
Grenadines, and Venezuela.
PRESENTERS
Carlos Fernández de Cossío: Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to South Africa
Steve Ellner: Professor and Head of the Department of General Economic History,
Universidad de Oriente (UDO), Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
Veronica Garces: Economist, Ecuadorian Central Bank
FACILITATORS
Prof Deon Geldenhuys: Department of Politics and International Relations,
University of Johannesburg
Prof Samantha Ashman: Department of Economics and Econometrics,
University of Johannesburg