Lecture by Jamil Mahuad: Ousting Latin American Presidents, The Case of Ecuador
Wednesday December 3, 2003 3:00 PM
Location: Troy Moore Library, 9th Fl. Gnl. Classrm. Bldg.
Member Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer McCoy
Description Of Event
Jamil Mahuad is former president of Ecuador and currently a visiting fellow at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Public Policy. He was removed from office in a coup led by indigenous protestors and mid-ranking military officers in January 2000 in the wake of an economic crisis. He is currently working on two books about the Peru-Ecuador border war of the 1990s and the premature removal of Latin American presidents in the 1990s.
Additional Event Notes
Co-Sponsored by the Political Science Department at Georgia State University.