The Harry and Berniece Gockel
International
Symposium

April 12, 1999

Taylor Performing Arts Center

Missouri Southern State College

Joplin, Missouri

The Topic:

Latin America:
Peace, Human Progress
and New Challenges
for the 21^st Century

The Speaker:

Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
Recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Peace
Founder of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress

In honor of:

Harry and Berniece Gockel

The Program for Monday evening, April 12, 1999

In Preparation for the Symposium, we offered these articles for background:

For background information on Latin American and Caribbean countries and other geographic entities, including U.S. policy toward them, we recommend the U.S. State Department's Country Information site.

On the Panama Canal, these few sites may assist you:

The Panama Canal

Defining a New Relationship: The Issues of U.S. Access to Facilities in Panama

Part of an Interview with Jimmy Carter

On Cuba, these sites may help you get started:

Cuban American National Foundation

1996 Human Rights Report: Cuba

Dollars, Darkness, and Diplomacy: Three Perspectives on Cuba

The New Institutional Economics and the Study of the Cuban Economy

Activities Related to the Symposium:

The Latin America Semester

The Past Symposia:

The 1998 Symposium: "Africa: The Neglected Continent"

The 1997 Symposium: "Hong Kong in Transition: The Transfer of Sovereignty to China

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