The Crisis of Democracy in Central America

Date: 

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 3:00pm to 5:00pm


For a recording of this event, please click here.

Keynote speakers: Terry Lynn Karl, Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Emerita, and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Panelists: Jennifer Avila, Journalist and founding editor-in-chief of Contra Corriente (Honduras); Carlos F Chamorro, independent investigative journalist; founder and editor of Confidencial (Nicaragua); Oscar Martinez, co-founder, coordinator, and chief editor of El Faro (El Salvador), author of Los Muertos y el Periodista; Claudia Paz y Paz, Guatemalan criminal law specialist, scholar, judge and litigator

Moderated by: Maria Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, Columbia University; Director, ILAS; Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, DRCLAS

Presented in collaboration with Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University