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FOUR EXCELLENT SPEAKERS HIGHLIGHT OUR 2012 SUMMER PROGRAM
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MAY 9
LUIS AMBROGGIO
ARGENTINA'S ROLE IN LATIN AMERICA
AND RELATIONS WITH US
 ARGENTINA: PAST AND PRESENT: PICTURES, MALVINAS, BRAZIL, CENTRAL BANK, POSITIONS AND ISSUES.
The talk will focus on three areas:
1) Argentina: History, data and context.
2) Argentina in Pictures;
3) Current issues: Malvinas, Brazil, Central Bank and other topics of discussion.
Mr. Ambroggio is an Argentine-American entrepreneur and writer born in Córdoba, Argentina, founder of an Aeronautical Company, is currently a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy and the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. Author of more than fifteen published books: His writings have appeared in newspapers, magazines and poetic anthologies of the U.S.A. (Cool Salsa, Poetic voices without boundaries), Spain (The new Hispanic-American Poetry, Prometeo and others) and Latin America. His poetry has been included in Manuals of Literature (Pasajes and Bridges to Literature), and recorded in the Archives of Hispanic Literature of the U.S. Library of the Congress.
JUNE 13
DR. JULES GYLYS
NATO ITS PAST AND ITS FUTURE
NATO today is without a doubt the most powerful military and political alliance in the world.
In the course of its 63 years, the alliance has institutionalized two truly monumental transformations in world affairs: the US post-WWII commitment to the defense of Europe against Soviet domination or even WWIII; secondly, the peaceful termination of the Cold War which ended in new geopolitical division of Europe and created the preconditions for a larger democratic European union.
The implications and lessons to be learned from its previous achievements, including the future possible participation of Russia in its alliance will be analyzed.
Dr. Gylys received his PhD in Economics from Wayne State University. As a US Army Scientist worked on the development of new Weapons Systems.
As Director of the Policy Analysis Institute presented several lectures to the Moscow Academy of Science in Russia.
Authored dozens of research studies in professional journals.
SEPTEMBER 12
JIM PHIPPARD
CUBA IN TRANSITION
(QUE PASA EN CUBA)
 Is Cuba "hurtling" toward capitalism?
The most developed country in Latin America in the 20s: railroads, telecommunications, flourishing agriculture, but with U.S. organized crime making inroads.
Today the economy is in shambles; lack of economic growth because of poor policies and centralized controls and bureaucracy (also, effects of global economic crisis). Population aging and declining.
Agriculture: a rich land is totally under-utilized and in decline.
Exports: doctors, soldiers, tourism, culture (music and painting).
Recent economic policy changes in the right direction, but far too timid. Earlier Russian, and now Venezuelan, subsidies put off the need for coherent and sound market-oriented policy choices
Human rights: abysmal. Dissidents harassed, arrested, jailed. Speaking out is bad for your health.
Future of a post-Castro Cuba: Cuba's best asset is people - both in Cuba and the diaspora, but neglect has been so acute it will take years to turn around agriculture and the rest of the economy . Real risks: the existing system will slowly erode (will oppression and inequality result in a Cuban "Arab Spring"?)
or a new resource (oil?) will eliminate the pressure for reform.
A graduate of Catholic University (economics, cum laude) and Georgetown Law, he has a masters from the Harvard Kennedy School. He received an Alumni Achievement Award from Catholic U. for breaking "new ground in advancing small enterprise and economic development in Africa and Eastern Europe." After serving in the US Navy, Mr. Phippard then joined USAID, where he was Assistant General Counsel for Legislation. He was named Senior Legal Advisor in Egypt when the USAID program increased substantially after the Sinai Accords. Jim was named Director of the USAID Office of Near East and North Africa. He was decorated by President Bourguiba for his work and retired from the Foreign Service as a Minister-Counselor. As a senior policy advisor to the Senate Agriculture Committee he proposed key reforms to U.S. international food aid laws in the 1990 Farm Bill. He later served as Chief Operating Officer of ACDI/VOCA, an international development organization formed by U.S. Agribusiness CO-Ops. He is a board member and former president of the American Tunisian Association and was named to the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the funeral of former president Bourguiba. He received the Ibn Khaldoun award from the U.S. Tunisian-American Center.
OCTOBER 8
DR. JAY WOLFF
DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVER
SOUTH AFRICA'S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
 South Africa, once the industrial and economic leader of the African continent, is evolving. More than a century ago, Cecil Rhodes created DeBeers, the world's monopoly in diamonds, and used the wealth to build a great nation. However, this nation, South Africa, rested on a foundation of social injustice.
The eyes of the free world finally recognized the evil and turned on South Africa's leaders with disapproval. World approbation ended apartheid in 1994.
What followed was the first election in which all of South Africa's citizens were permitted to vote. Nelson Mandela was elected President. In the 18 years following, social, political, and economic change have swept over South Africa. These changes are not necessarily for the better. Economic strength based on social injustice has been eliminated but the blacks are poorer than ever. The segregated townships still exist. Young whites are emigrating in growing numbers. Will South Africa survive as the diamond of its continent?
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Dr. Jay Wolff took his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Georgetown University. He was elected a member of the British Royal Society of Health, and is a former member of the faculty of Florida Gulf Coast University's Renaissance Academy. He has published more than a hundred articles on history and culture and healthcare in professional journals as well as American Heritage, Forbes, American Legacy, the Washington Post, and The L.A.Times. He has also been a commentator on The History Channel. Dr. Wolff is an enthusiastically received destination lecturer who brings history to life with stories of the people and events that changed the world.
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