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Articles on the European Union - Latin America and the Caribbean summit
NEW CAPS ON IMMIGRATION Cultural events LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL WEEK at the Institute Of Education: 17 - 21 May 2010 Inauguración del busto del General O'Leary en Irlanda
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
BOLIVAR HALL EVENTS CIMARRON FESTIVAL MINKA NEWS IS A NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER. IT HAS A DAILY EDITION IN SPANISH AND ALSO ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE VERSIONS. DIRECTOR RAUL MANCERA. 15 MAY 2010. IF BY MISTAKE WE HAVE SENT IT TO YOU PLEASE REPLY 'REMOVE'. CONTACT US: MINKANEWS@YMAIL.COM EU - Latin American and Caribbean summit. The EU-LAC Summit of Heads of State and Government that will take place in Madrid on May 18. The Sixth EU-LAC Summit will bring together most of the leaders of 60 countries in both continents. However, it remains to be seen if new British Prime Minister David Cameron will make his international debut in the Spanish capital, Efe reported. London has Europe's largest Caribbean and Latin American population and it needs to cultivate its links with that region. 
Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union Summit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union Summit (LAC-EU) is a biennial meeting of heads of state and government of Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union. In the first LAC-EU summit, held in Rio de Janeiro between 28 June and 29 June 1999, participant nations agreed to develop a strategic partnership focused on strengthening democracy, the rule of law, international peace and political stability.[1] The second meeting was carried out in Madrid in 2002, the third in Guadalajara in 2004, the fourth in Vienna in 2006 and the fifth was held in Lima in mid-May 2008. Major topics discussed at the Lima summit were free trade, food prices and poverty, and sustainable development.[2] The results of the event were rather disappointing, as very little was achieved.[3] The next round of took take place in Brussels on June 2008. The sixth summit will be held in Madrid in May 2010.[4] 
The EU-Latin America summit Plus ça change But the balance of diplomatic power shifts to Brazil May 13th 2010 | From The Economist print edition AT THE first summit between the European Union and Latin America in 1999, the assembled leaders announced a "strategic partnership" with no fewer than 55 "priorities" from human rights to tourism. Over objections from France, which was worried about its farmers, they agreed to launch talks on freer trade between the EU and Mercosur, a sub-regional group based on Brazil and Argentina, provided these moved in parallel with what became the Doha round of world-trade talks. Not much of this has happened. The following four summits were notable chiefly for demonstrating Latin America's recent disunity: Argentina and Uruguay were not on speaking terms at one, while Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez sounded off against free trade and European preaching on human rights. Spain, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, wants to use this year's get-together, in Madrid on May 18th, to "relaunch" the relationship. Its hopes are pinned on trade deals (technically, an "association agreement") with Colombia and Peru and with Central America, and on restarting the talks with Mercosur, which have been suspended since 2004. The only certainty is the signing of the pact with Colombia and Peru, which then must be approved by the European Parliament. Despite concerns about human-rights abuses in those countries, the parliamentarians will probably decide that in boosting trade and investment the agreement would bolster democracy. The negotiations with Central America were dogged at first by a dispute over Europe's barriers to their exports of bananas. This was eventually resolved last year, but a coup in Honduras caused the talks to be frozen until February. Several issues remain: for example, Central America wants to limit imports of Europe's (subsidised) powdered milk and cheese. European diplomats hope to address these concerns in a last round of dialogue before the summit. With the Doha round dead, Mercosur will agree to Europe's request for exploratory talks about renewing their negotiations. But since France is opposed, and Argentina often breaks Mercosur's rules, these are unlikely to get anywhere. Back in 1999, Europe was confidently expanding and Latin America was in recession. Now the reverse is true. Although Europe is still Latin America's biggest aid donor and foreign investor, its trade with the region has grown much more slowly than China's over the past decade. Moreover, the global balance of power is starting to shift to countries like Brazil. Ahead of a presidential election in October, Brazil has lurched to the left in foreign policy. It threw its weight around before the summit. Brazil and its South American allies refuse to recognise Porfirio Lobo, Honduras's president, because he was elected under a government that took power through a coup. They threatened to boycott the event if Mr Lobo attended. Mr Lobo obligingly agreed to turn up only for a separate meeting between the EU and Central America. This ostracism is bizarre given that Mr Lobo won a reasonably free election in November. The same cannot be said for the governments in Iran, which Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will visit before arriving in Madrid, or in Cuba, with which he is friendly. Marginally useful as the trade deals may be, they hardly add up to a "strategic association" between the two continents. This will remain a distant prospect as long as Latin America is divided and Europe is preoccupied with its own woes. 
Latin American Herald Tribune
MADRID – Spain is expecting a "massive presence" of Latin American leaders at next week's summit meeting of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean in Madrid, once resolved the conflict over the attendance of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, whose government is not recognized by many nations in the hemisphere.
"We are confident that there will be a massive presence and we base that on the fact that some presidents who have not confirmed that they are coming are organizing parallel activities in Madrid," Spain's secretary of state for Ibero-America, Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, told Efe in an interview.
Spain, which is to host the summit in its capacity as current occupant of the EU presidency, wants the gathering to mark a qualitative leap forward toward a strategic partnership between the European and Latin American blocs.
Last week four countries of the 12-member Union of South American Nations, or Unasur – Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia – threatened not to attend the summit if Lobo is there.
Those countries, like others of Latin America, do not acknowledge the president elected last November under the de facto regime that took power when the elected head of state, Mel Zelaya, was ousted by a coup in 2009.
Lobo announced last week that he would not attend the summit and would limit his presence in Madrid to the meeting that the EU will celebrate with Central American presidents, at which they are scheduled to sign an Association Accord.
For Laiglesia, what happened is a sign that "the situation of Honduras is one of the problems to be resolved within the framework of Latin American political coordination."
"The attitude of Unasur shows the discomfort that still exists in many Latin American countries because of the risk that the coup in Honduras and its outcome can be seen as not having been brought to a proper conclusion, and that the elections following the coup justify the coup itself," the Spanish official said.
He said that Lobo's decision not to attend the main summit but to go to the EU-Central America meeting "covers the interests of all parties and will allow the summit to proceed normally."
The purpose of the Madrid summit "is to take a step onwards and upwards in relations between Europe and Latin America, so that we don't see each other just as biregional partners but that we include the great subjects of the global agenda in our political dialogue, in our goals of coordination," De Laiglesia said.
This purpose will be expressed in a policy statement and in an action program.
The statement will sum up "the general policy lines of this new association," while the action program "will establish a roadmap, a work plan so that Europe and Latin America can work together continuously between summits."
Included in the work program will be such subjects as climate change, the new international financial architecture, strategies for emerging from the recession crisis, sustainable development and scientific research.
The idea is that these topics "will not just be things to reflect on at the summit and then not talked about until the next meeting, but rather that there be a continuous program of work that goes on during the two years between one summit and another," he said.
Programs will have the funding necessary to keep them going, and one of the important and original aspects, according to De Laiglesia, is a new facility for investing in Latin America.
The new mechanism seeks to mobilize funds, both public and private, for big infrastructure projects that Latin America still needs and that the EU cannot finance on its own. During the first phase it will be backed by up to 120 million euros ($152.7 million). EFE
MercoPress - ? ... the attendance of all UNASUR presidents to the Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union Summit in Madrid next week is virtually confirmed. ...
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release) - ? On Monday May 17, Caribbean Ministers of Foreign Affairs will join with their counterparts in Latin America in a meeting with the European Union in which ...
MercoPress - ? The European Union and Mercosur will officially re-launch negotiations for a trade and cooperation agreement they have been discussing since 1999 in the ...
El Universal - ? Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez will be one of the main leaders to attend the European Union-Latin America and Caribbean Summit. ...
Interactive Investor - ?18 hours ago? MONDAY, MAY 17 MADRID - Prime Minister George Papandreou to attend the 6th EU-Latin America and Caribbean Summit. Through to May 18. ...
Hurriyet Daily News - ? Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan will attend the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean, or LAC, Summit in Madrid on May 18 as the guest ...
PARALELL SUMMIT This year's Madrid summit marks a key milestone in the ongoing development of the Enlazandos Alternativas network for both highlighting EU complicity with human rights and environmental abuses and highlighting the real alternatives offered by social movements of integration and development that respect the rights of people, communities, and protect the environment. MADRID 14-17 MAY 2010: Enlazandos Alternativas 4 Press Release (6 May 2010): "Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Putting European corporations on trial". Earlier this year a "call" for submission of cases to the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal went out to the network. About 27 cases against European corporations will be heard at the fourth PPT in Madrid. During the summit, a programme of workshops is also being held, to "showcase" alternative forms of bi-regional development that go beyond the initial opposition to dominating forms of economic, bi-regional integration as pursued by the EU and some heads of state in Latin America and the Caribbean. This year's Madrid summit marks a key milestone in the ongoing development of Enlazandos Alternativas. First, it seeks to highlight EU complicity with human rights and environmental abuses via their international trade agenda and the operations of EU-based transnational corporations verseas. Second, the series of workshops will continue to build on the capacity of the movement to offer real alternatives - forms of bi-regional integration and development - that respect the rights of people,
communities, and protect the environment. A focus on solutions will be an important onward aim of the network, contributing substantially to its momentum. 
NEW CAPS ON IMMIGRATION Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, yesterday said work would start immediately on setting an annual cap on migrants from outside the EU – a Conservative election pledge. However, Mrs May said senior politicians will not be choosing a "figure out of thin air" for the new limit, adding: "There will be a process of looking into the factors we need to take into account." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7719933/Population-and-immigration-undercounted.html Skills migrants group opposes cap on UK immigration May 13 2010 by Liam Clifford The Highly Skilled Migrants Forum has spoken out in opposition to the new Conservative/Lib Dem government's plan to introduce a cap on the number of non-EU migrants allowed to move to the UK and obtain UK work visas. The influential group is made up mainly of professionals from India and includes members from other non-EU countries. It says any attempt to cap non-EU immigration numbers will be unworkable.
The group claims that British companies, industry and the economy will suffer if a cap is introduced. See more at http://www.globalvisas.com/news/skills_migrants_group_opposes_cap_on_uk_immigration2325.html Cameron coalition: Theresa May made home secretary 
| | Conservative MP Theresa May has become the UK's most senior female politician after being appointed home secretary in the new coalition cabinet. Mrs May is only the second woman in the post, following Labour's Jacqui Smith between 2008 and 2009. The 53-year-old MP for Maidenhead was also given the role of Minister for Women and Equality in the Tory/Lib Dem government. In 2002, Mrs May became the first female Conservative Party chairman. In her first BBC interview since being appointed, she confirmed identity cards would be scrapped and outlined other key areas in which she would work to deliver the agreed priorities of the Lib Dem and Conservative coalition government. DNA database She said: "We will be scrapping ID cards but also introducing an annual cap on the number of migrants coming into the UK from outside the European union." See the TV interview and more http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8678271.stm |
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| LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL WEEK at the Institute Of Education: 17 - 21 May 2010 | | | |
| 17th - 21st May, 2010
LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL WEEK at the IOE
Institute of Education Students' Union, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
RE:LACS (Rounds & Events: Latin American Cultural Society) and LAPE (Latin American Perspectives in Education Society) invites you to the 'Latin American Cultural Week' (LACW). The main theme of the LACW will be 'The Practice of Freedom', inspired by the work of the Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire.
The LACW is part of the London Biennale 2010. It will welcome artists from Latin America, UK Philippines, Austria, Gabon, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Korea, Spain and US. The programme will include panels and workshops, visual art exhibitions and artistic performances running daily from 1 to 8pm, free of charge.
For more information about the artistic and academic programme of the LACW, and the artists involved, check our website http://lape.weebly.com
To register for the free workshops on Thursday and Friday, check on the following links.
Theatre of the Oppressed: http://lape.weebly.com/workshop-opressed.html
Latin American Identities: http://lape.weebly.com/workshop-identities.html
Some events of the LACW at the IOE
Monday 17th May
15:30 – 17:45
Video/panel: Representing, Responding to and Researching the Latin American/Ibero-American Community in London, video/panel. Jude Fransman (host) and guest speakers.
18:45-20.00
Sophia Buchuk, singing. Guest artists: Diego La- Verde, Jose Navarro, Che- Venezuelan.
David Medalla, performance artist.
Tuesday 18th May
14.00-16.00
Panel: Paulo Freire and education Tristan McCowen and guest speakers.
Wednesday 19th May
19:00 Poetry evening: Sarah Reilly, Jill Rock Mabel Encinas Other poets (TBC)
Thursday 20th May
11: 00 – 5:00 Workshop: Theatre of the oppressed
20: 15 Reynolds Tenazas, Puki Procession and guest artists, performance
21:30 Laura Plancarte – performance
Friday 21st May
15.00-18.00 Workshop: Latin American Identities. Mabel Encinas.
19:00 Beatriz Lozano, Ana Karina Rossi and 'Kufu' 19:30 Víctor Alarcón, music | | I am very pleased to invite you and members of your staff to a conference focusing on raising the achievement of Portuguese speaking pupils and an awareness of Portuguese both as Modern Foreign Language and as a mother tongue in our schools. Your support and presence would be invaluable. We would really welcome the opportunity to share our projects with you and to hear your opinions about the work we are developing in Lambeth schools and with Portuguese speaking countries. The conference O CÉU É O LIMITE – THE SKY'S THE LIMIT will take place at The Purcell Room - Queen Elizabeth Hall in the Southbank Centre on Monday 21st JUNE 2010 from 9:30am to 3:45pm, with lunch provided for delegates. I would be delighted if you could participate in this event and if you could disseminate this invitation amongst your contacts. Please see attached flyer and register on the booking form if you are able to attend. Luisa Ribeiro
Advisory Teacher for Portuguese Pupil Achievement & Modern Foreign Languages E: lribeiro@lambeth.gov.uk D: 020 7926 5988 M: 07949 024 375
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| | Bolívar Hall Upcoming Events May 2010 | Greetings!
Welcome your contacts to your events. Provide some general information about the events they will be viewing below. Build up the anticipation for what will be coming in the days, weeks, and months ahead. | Festival: VENEZUELA IN THE DOCUMENTARY There is much to learn about Venezuela and the process of progressive transformation it is undergoing. No other genre can convey this reality better than the documentary. Since just before the election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela in 1998, a large number of documentaries have captured the rich and multifaceted nature of the Bolivarian process in which the poor, women, workers, peasants, students, youth, the mass driving force of progressive change in this simultaneously oil-rich but poverty-stricken nation, are shown taking their destiny in their own hands. The VENEZUELA IN DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL is a small but representative sample of the growing documentary interest that the Bolivarian process has awoken.
Beauty obsession (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2002 - 23 minutes)
Carimba, marked on my skin (Dir David Segarra, 2008 - 40 minutes) Tue 18th 7:30pm
Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL £3 on the door
| CELEBRATING LATIN AMERICA 200 !!!!!
A VERY SPECIAL "MUSICAL FEAST", TO CELEBRATE THE FIVE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES THAT BECAME INDEPENDENT FROM SPAIN 200 YEARS AGO, IN 1810: ARGENTINA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, MEXICO AND VENEZUELA
THE PROGRAMME IS AN EXCITING COMBINATION ACADEMIC (CLASSICAL) AND FOLK MUSIC.
YOU WILL HEAR A RICH SELECTION OF THE BEST AND MOST REPRESENTATIVE MUSIC IN THE FIVE CELEBRATED COUNTRIES
performed by: GEOFFREY SILVER, Violin PRESTI GUITAR DUO (FLORENCE NISBET & AMIE OWEN) GRUPO FOLKLORICO RAICES LATINOAMERICANAS ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS, Piano  Event Info Thu 20th 7:30pm
Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL Free | Festival: VENEZUELA IN THE DOCUMENTARY There is much to learn about Venezuela and the process of progressive transformation it is undergoing. No other genre can convey this reality better than the documentary. Since just before the election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela in 1998, a large number of documentaries have captured the rich and multifaceted nature of the Bolivarian process in which the poor, women, workers, peasants, students, youth, the mass driving force of progressive change in this simultaneously oil-rich but poverty-stricken nation, are shown taking their destiny in their own hands. The VENEZUELA IN DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL is a small but representative sample of the growing documentary interest that the Bolivarian process has awoken.
The signal belongs to everyone - RCTV (Dir Pana Films, 2007 - 56 minutes)
Tue 25th 7:30pm
Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL £3 on the door
| Vietnam Today Celebration of Vietnamese anniversaries with speeches, music and food.
Organized by leading British trade unions and trade union representatives as an international solidarity event.
Event Info Wed 26th May, 7:30pm Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL Contact: Doug Nicholls, Unite, doug@cywu.org.uk | | | | |
| Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:25 | | On Saturday May 22nd come and hear speakers from Venezuela and discuss the latest events surrounding the Venezuelan Revolution, including the PSUV congress, Chavez's appeal for a Fifth International, the setting up of a Bolivarian militia, factory occupations, the forthcoming national assembly elections and the situation in Latin America in general.
The speakers from Venezuela are Katy Jaimes, delegate to the PSUV Extraordinary Congress and a revolutionary socialist from Caracas who has been involved in the occupied factories movement, and Elias Chacón from the Miranda PSUV youth, also involved in the occupied factories movement.
There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions.
Saturday May 22 University of London Union Malet Street WC1E 7HY Map: http://tinyurl.com/ulumap
10 am to 6pm
Free to HOV members. Join on the day for £7.50 (£5 unwaged, no one turned away for lack of funds) 'The Latin Way to Africa' by Wilmer Sifontes C I M A R R O N F E S T I V A L 2010
13th to 22nd May
Celebrating The Bicentenary Of Latin America's Independance
Cimarron Festival is a multidisciplinary event, aimed at sharing and celebrating Latin America's African cultural heritage. Due to the amazing positive response from our audience for the past two years, the event has now become a permanent fixture on the London busy cultural calendar.
Keeping in line with our main focus which is to celebrate Latin America's African cultural heritage, we will be running a wide ranging programme that will feature lectures, music and dance workshops, documentaries, and music and dance performances in our aim to connect the Afro-Latin American diasporas in the UK.
The empowering image of the "Cimarron" the run away African slave, highlights the strong presence and influence of the African cultural legacy in Latin America, paying homage to our historical and cultural background. Children of 'Cacarica' an Afro-Colombian peace community in the Pacific coast
Photo by: Iona Hogerndoorn (Holland)
THE EVENT WILL FEATURE
Lectures by academics on specialist subjects on Afro-Latin American culture such as:
- Pedro Perez Sarduy
- Matthias Rohrig
Music and Dance Workshops
Explore the diversity of Afro-Latin American drumming and folkloric dancing by joining our free workshops taught by some of our most outstanding London based Latin American musicians and dancers.
Documentary: 'The Sons Of benkos" By Lucas Silva (English subtitles)
This film is dedicated to the African culture in Colombia, seen and told through the prism of its music. Traditional rhythms take us back to the past, to the ancestors and the bonds with Africa, and the modern music played by young people today , brings us back to the present in a "pluri-ethnical and multicultural" country full of contradictions. Launch event: Thursday 13th May 7.30pm Lecture by Pedro Perez Sarduy from Cuba on his novel The Maids from Havana. At ONEKX 120 Cromer Street 8BS Kings Cross Music and dance performances: Grand finale on 22nd of May at The Conway Hall Red Lion Square, Holborn WC1R, with a celebration of Afro-Latin American music and dance performances from various groups. £5 at the door.
The event will take place from 13th to 22nd of May at the following venues across London: - The Bolivar Hall
- SOAS University
- The Conway Hall in Holborn
- LAEP Latin American Elderly Project in Angel
- ONEKX in Kings Cross
- The Ritzy Bar in Brixton
A special thank you to legendary Salsa singer Henry Fiol for collaborating with The Cimarron Festival by donating the image of his painting which appears in the 'Saoco Macho Rumba' album, for exclusive use on our advertising campaign.
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