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The State of the Mexican Election: A Journalistic Perspective

This event is co-sponsored by the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas and will take place in New York City

Date & Time

Tuesday
May. 9, 2006
8:00am – 10:00am ET

Overview

Join the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas, and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute for a roundtable discussion that will address the role of the media in the upcoming Mexican elections. Among other issues, our speakers will analyze how the media will influence U.S.-Mexico relations beyond the July 2 elections, specifically with respect to immigration, trade, and security as well as what impact the congressional, local and Mexico City races will have on the presidential race.

Featured Speakers:

John Authers, U.S. Markets Editor, Financial Times, New York
Dolia Estévez, Washington Correspondent, Radio Monitor; Contributer, Poder and El Semanario, Mexico City
Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs en Español, Mexico City

Moderators:
Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute
Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director of Policy, Council of the Americas

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New York, NY 10021

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Mexico Institute

The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute.   Read more

Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

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