"VENEZUELA COMING APART: IS COLLAPSE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE FOR ITS FUTURE" Universidad de Miami,

Venezuela Coming Apart:

Is Collapse the Only Alternative for its Future?

Panelists

Javier Corrales
Professor of Political Science
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts

Russ Dallen
Managing Partner, Latinvest
Publisher, Latin American Herald Tribune
 Caracas, Venezuela

Beatrice Rangel
President and CEO
AMLA Consulting
Miami Beach, Florida.

H.E. Otto Reich
President
Otto Reich Associates, LLC
Washington, D.C.

 

Thursday, November 12, 2015

 

Location:	Hyatt Regency Coral Gables	Time:	8:00 –  8:15 a.m. - Registration and Continental Breakfast
	Venetian Room 50 Alhambra Plaza		8:15 – 10:30 a.m. - Presentations and Discussion

 Javier Corrales is Dwight W. Morrow 1895 professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.  His research focuses on democratization and political economy of development.  He is currently working on the second edition of his book Dragon in the Tropics:  The Legacy of Hugo Chávez, co-authored with Michael Penfold.   He is also the co-author with Daniel Altschuler of The Promise of Participation: Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala (Palgrave/Macmillan 2013), and with Carlos A. Romero of U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s:  Coping with Midlevel Security Threats (Routledge, 2013).  He is the co-editor with Mario Pecheny of The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America:  A Reader on GLBT Rights (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), and author of Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s (Penn State University Press,  2002).  His research has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Politics, World Development, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, World Policy Journal, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Democracy, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Studies, Current History, and Foreign Policy. He is also working on a book manuscript on constitutional reforms in Latin America.  Javier Corrales serves on the editorial board ofLatin American Politics and Society and Americas Quarterly.

Russ Dallen is publisher of the Latin American Herald Tribune and a Managing Partner at international investment bank Latinvest.  Prior to Latinvest, Russ was head of the Latin American operations of international investment bank Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. in Venezuela as well as head of The Daily Journal, Venezuela’s 75 year old publishing group,  responsible for launching Diario de Caracas and Tal Cual.

Russ was a Fellow at Columbia University in New York, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Association of the USA, an American Fellow in the European Community Visitors Program, the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and a Center Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.    U.S. President Ronald Reagan named him a Harry S. Truman Scholar to Columbia University and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher named him a Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholar to Oxford University.  A National Commission co-headed by legendary broadcaster Tom Brokaw and Shell Oil head John Bookout named him one of America’s top 10 leaders for its third century.

Russ holds a Masters and Bachelors in Law from Oxford University, a Diploma in International Law from Nottingham University, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Ole Miss.  His Masters thesis written at Columbia University was named Article of the Year by the Common Market Law Review, Europe’s leading legal journal.  At Columbia, Russ worked on the West legal tome International Law – Cases and Materials and the Restatement (2^nd) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States of America. He is author and contributing author of 4 books and serves on the International Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Russ is a Presidential Fellows Mentor at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and he sits on the Editorial Board of The Hemispheric Review and southern culture Oxford American magazine, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Harry S. Truman Scholars Association and the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship.

A Ner Tamid Award winner, Russ is a member of the Support Committee of Conciencia Activa Venezuela, a foundation headed by the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Pynchas Brener, Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara, and Pastor Samuel Olson dedicated to rescuing and restoring ethical and moral values in Venezuelan society.  He served on the Media Committee of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham) and the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan American Friendship Association (AVAA), which provides scholarships to worthy Venezuelan students.  As a firm believer in the need to provide for better education in Venezuela, as head of the Venezuela Daily Journal, Russ received the AVAA Award for Patronage.  In addition, Russ oversaw the annual National Daily Journal Spelling Bee for schoolchildren from 4 to 18 throughout Venezuela.

Beatrice Rangel is president and CEO of AMLA Consulting, LLC. Before founding AMLA, she was senior advisor to the chairman and corporate vice president of the Cisneros Group of Companies. Ms. Rangel was former managing director of Zemi Communications in Miami. From 1972 to 1992, she served in a variety of positions in the government of Venezuela, including chief of staff to President Carlos Andrés Peréz. For her work throughout Latin America, Ms. Rangel has been honored with the Order of Merit of May from Argentina, the Condor of the Andes Order from Bolivia, the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by Chile, the Order of Boyaca from Colombia, and the National Order of Jose Matías Delgado from El Salvador.

Otto Juan Reich is President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, a consulting firm which provides international government relations, trade and investment advice to US and multinational clients. He has spent most of his life in foreign affairs, primarily related to Latin America and the Caribbean, including private enterprise, government, and the U.S. military.

In 2001, President George W. Bush selected Ambassador Reich to be the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, reporting to Secretary of State Colin Powell, where he served until 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.

From 1989 to 2001, Ambassador Reich was a private consultant, advising clients on international government relations, market access and strategic planning, first as a partner in the Brock Group and later as President of his own consulting firm. In 1991 and 1992, as a private citizen and at the request of President George H. W. Bush, Ambassador Reich served as Alternate U.S. Representative to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: From 1986 to 1989 he served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, for which he was awarded the highest commendations of both the State Department and the Republic of Venezuela. As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean.

His prior experience includes service as Washington Director of the Council of the Americas; Community Development Coordinator for the City of Miami; International Representative of the State of Florida Department of Commerce; and staff assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ambassador Reich received a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina (1966) and a Master¹s Degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University (1973). His military service (1966 - 1969) included duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s 3rd Civil Affairs Group (Airborne), Panama Canal Zone.

From 1998 to 2001, Reich was co-host of CNN International’s “Choque de Opiniones,” a Spanish-language version of CNN’s “Crossfire.” He appears regularly on US and Latin American media.

Supporting Organizations:
CAMACOL, Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development and International Trade Unit of Miami Dade, Global Ties Miami, Haitian American Chamber of Commerce of Florida, Georgetown University Club of Miami,  Oxford University Society of Florida, United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, University of Miami Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER), Uruguayan American Chamber of Commerce (Florida) and Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce


Media Partners: 
AméricaEconomía, Hispanic Target Magazine,
Latin American Herald Tribune,
Latin Business Chronicle, LATIN TRADE, Latinvex and WorldCity

                                          

Program Fee:  $40; Academics and Students – Free Admission with Valid ID