Latin America -- "Crisis in Governance" Posted by Michael Signer

I've been Amtrak'ed up to NYC today to live-blog a conference being sponsored by the Security and Peace Institute, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the United Nations Development Programme:  "Crisis of Governance:  The International Stake in Sustaining Democracy in Latin America." 

During the day, I'm going to be live-blogging each of the five sessions of the conference. 

The conference, which was put into the works several months ago, has impeccable timing.  The recent ascension of the sweater-wearing Evo Morales in Bolivia, and the constant agitation of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela (among others) have put the topic of democracy and its stability into the brains of everyone who's interested in what democratization really means, and what's happening in this hemisphere.

That all said -- I am not a Latin American expert.  At all.  So I'm going to approach this task and the conference from the perspective I think many of you probably share -- an interested, aware, but ordinary observer.  I did spend a month after college studying Spanish in Costa Rica, but that's more background lighting than spotlight.

OK, so let's go -- I've put on my translator ear thing and am feeling all UN-y.  Please keep checking through the day, and I'll keep you posted on what I'm learning.

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