Latin America Learning is a project of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University. This collection provides rich, interactive open educational resources (OER) focused on Latin America and the challenges and issues facing it. These materials are available in a variety of formats and openly licensed to suit the needs of educators and learners. Learn more.
Mexico - Towards being the USA's First Trade Partner: The Necessary Political, Social and Business Conditions
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2011 Symposium Working Group
Scholars from northeast Brazil, Costa Rica, southeast Mexico, Nicaragua, Italy, and the United States gathered for a think-tank international week April 18-22, 2011 to examine Latin America’s equity-gap challenges using a community engagement approach. The MSU 2011 signature symposium, Diminishing Latin America’s Inequalities: Land, food and human health strategies, opened with a presentation by Ernesto Cardenal, Latin America’s foremost living poet, who spoke on The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The keynote address—Brazil’s Unified Health System May Promote Social Inequality: Paradox or dialectic?—was followed by invited speakers that addressed how rural families and communities suffer inequality. A post-symposium working group met to delineate collaborative actions to better meet intercultural needs and goals.
Resources from Symposium 2011
The Annual Symposium hosted by the Center for Latin American 
and
Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University was a great success. This year's two-day program was filled with interesting and inspiring sessions around the topic of Diminishing Latin America's Inequalities: Land, Food and Human Health Strategies.
The keynote address, Brazil’s Unified Health System May Promote
Social Inequality: Paradox or Dialectic? was given by Naomar Almeida-Filho who is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Instituto de Saúde Coletiva Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Check out all Symposium resources here!
Second International Symposium: Genomics and Modeling in the New Stage of Tropical Cattle, Nacional Universidade de Colombia Palmira
Title: Second International Symposium: Genomics and Modeling in the New Stage of Tropical Cattle
Date: 22 to June 25, 2011
Place: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Palmira. Building 25. Auditorio 25-110 (25-110 Auditorium)
Target audience: Researchers, professors, graduate students and professionals interested in issues of genomics and selection and modeling of livestock production systems.
Ernesto Cardenal Presents "The Origin of Species and Other Poems"
On April 18th, 2011, Ernesto Cardenal presented his most recent work, "The Origin of Species and Other Poems" at the RCAH Theatre in Snyder Hall. The night was filled with laughter and poignancy as the legendary poet/artist read and mused on his latest work.
Mexico Working Group Summary
A working group of about 15 invited speakers and MSU faculty members met on April 23 to continue deliberations following the April 21-22, 2010 symposium, Regional Inequality in Times of Globalization. This workshop activity was fundamentally catalyzed by symposium speaker presentations and discussions. The working group easily found common ground in consensus about priority issues, themes and opportunities for collaboration. The consensus centered on a rural livelihoods engagement model for southeastern Mexico. The result is a working document of current thinking and not a final group strategy.
Resources from Symposium 2010
The Annual Symposium hosted by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University was a huge success. This year's two-day program was filled with interesting, provocative, challenging, and inspiring sessions around the topic of Regional Inequality in Times of Globalization.
The keynote address, The Opportunity Gap in Mesoamerica, was given by Alejandro Villanueva who is the Regional Director for Programs in Latin America for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Check out all Symposium resources here!
