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Milton Friedman’s Legacy in Latin America - Markets, Crisis, Torture and Terror


Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - 7:30am
Place: Brecht Forum, 451 West St. (on Westside Hwy, btw. Bank and Bethune Streets, in Greenwich Village)

This discussion is being organized as a corrective to the Cato Institute “Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty”—an award of $500,000 being given to Venezuelan opposition student Yon Goicoechea on May 15, at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Speakers:

Doug Henwood
Editor of Left Business Observer, author of Wall Street

Greg Grandin
NYU Professor, Author of Empire’s Workshop

Forrest Hylton
Author of Evil Hour in Colombia

Gregory Wilpert
Editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, author of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

Hugo Siles Alvarado
Ambassador of Bolivia to the UN

For more information contact the Brecht Forum at (212) 242-4201.
http://www.brechtforum.org

Sponsored by:
NACLA
Global Exchange
Venezuela Analysis
Consulate General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in New York