Talk - What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global Economic Meltdown?

Martin Sanchez, Consul General of Venezuela in San Francisco and Debra Evenson author of "Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba" speaking at the workshop "What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global Economic Meltdown?" held October 16, 2009 at the National Lawyers Guild Law of the People 2009 Convention in Seattle.

Moderator: SUSAN SCOTT is a labor, appellate criminal defense, and retired government lawyer from California. Susan is Co-Chair of NLG Task Force on the Americas and International Committee, leader of 2006 NLG Delegation to Venezuela, and coordinator of NLG delegations to Venezuela, El Salvador and Honduras.
Speakers: MARTIN SANCHEZ is the Consul General of Venezuela in San Francisco, after 4 years serving as Venezuela Consul General in Chicago. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa. Starting as a student activist at Venezuela's Central University and member of Venezuela's Socialist Workers Party in the early 90s, Sanchez was involved in union and student activism. His party was one of the first to actively support the candidacy of Hugo Chavez for the presidency of Venezuela. In 2004, he joined the Venezuelan Foreign Service.
DEBRA EVENSON, of counsel to Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, works exclusively on the firms representation of Cuba. She is the author of Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba (2004) and numerous articles on Cuba. Evenson is past president of the NLG (1988-91) and member of the Board of the Latin American Institute for Alternative Legal Services, headquartered in Bogota (President of the Board, 1996-2001.)

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• Cuba
• Venezuela
• Latin
• America
• South
• Global
• Economy
• Economic
• Chavez
• Castro
• Revolution
• NLG

[PBrofaith]

Thank you talking stick for bringing many interesting points of view to the table. I must say that to identify ones self with any centralized political system seems to be folly.

[alfredunhill]

very interesting that in spite of economic hitmen and a myriad of other external and internal issues, these countries are thriving and unifying....brillilant.

[bapyou]

I wonder if Ms. Evenson or her colleagues has ever taken any heat from the exile Cuban community in the U.S. for her work. I've been reading Joan Didion's 1987 book 'Miami' which is in part a chilling account of the strong arm tactics the exiles use against anyone in the community even remotely sympathetic or conciliatory towards Castro Cuba. Evenson looks as though she may be Cuban; therefore I wonder.

If you haven't read Didion's book, I highly recommend it. It's intensely compelling work.

[spqrobert]

i think you confuse the effects of capitalism with the effects of industrialization.

[blttomato]

I have to agree, but seeing his limited understanding and relative young age, its easy to see why he'd gravitate towards marxism. Capitalism, when held to a strict account, like it used to be, has been the single most successful experiment of modern man..

[hasatum]

Shouldn't the key lesson of this development be decentralization and a focus on local government? If South America federalized, would you expect to see the kind of interest in public welfare that is apparent here?