Ernesto Zedillo in Berkeley TODAY

by vjw

Fri, Feb 13, 2004 1:45PM

Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo is speaking in Berkeley Friday. Among his administration's accomplishments is the violent repression of the indigenous population of Chiapas, including the Acteal massacre of 1997.

From the UCB website:

"On Friday, February 13, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon will be speaking on the topic "Fostering or Frustrating Globalization, That Is the Question."

NOTE:
Location changed to Wheeler Auditorium

Ernesto Zedillo was President of Mexico from December 1994 to December 2000. He is now Co-Coordinator of the UN Millennium Development Goals Task Force on the Multilateral Trading System, Co-Chairman of the UN Commission on the Private Sector and Development and Co-Chairman of the International Commission on Global Public Goods. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor of International Economics and Politics at Yale University.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Robbins Collection of the School of Law, UC Berkeley

Friday, February 13, 4:00 pm
Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall"

For more information: http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/

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