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The brutal earthquake that struck Haiti last week has unmasked the silent crisis of desperation and poverty that already enveloped the vast majority of the country's population. Haiti today represents one of the most complex and deeply rooted challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere: a failing state on the doorstep of the world's most powerful nation.
Please join us for a late breaking lecture on Haiti, the current efforts and long-term needs of the Island nation.
Daniel P. Erikson is senior associate for U.S. policy, director of the Haiti project at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, D.C.-based research center on U.S.-Latin American affairs. Erikson is a noted authority on Haiti, which he has visited regularly over the past decade.
Erikson has published more than sixty articles in publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, and The Washington Post, and his book chapters appear in The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change (2009), Latin America's Struggle for Democracy (2008), Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba's Transition (2007) and others. Erikson is the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution (Bloomsbury Press, 2008), which was described by Current History magazine as "the most important book on Cuba in a generation |
