The University of Miami’s Center for Hemispheric Policy will host its fifth annual Latin America Conference on Tuesday, April 27 from 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the InterContinental Hotel Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza. “The Global Economic Outlook and Its Impact on Latin America,” “The Social and Political Agenda for the Region,” and “U.S.-Latin America Relations Under the Obama Administration” are topics that will be discussed.

Porfirio Lobo, president of Honduras, will be the luncheon speaker. Featured speakers confirmed to date include: Carmen Lomellin, U.S. permanent representative, Organization of American States; Gabriel Silva, Honduras’s minister of defense; Augusto de la Torre, chief economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank; and Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

Scheduled panelists will include Graciana del Castillo, senior research scholar at Columbia University; Carlos Gutiérrez, non-resident scholar at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and former U.S. secretary of commerce; Carlos Alberto Montaner, journalist and writer; Michael Shifter, president, the Inter-American Dialogue; James Spalding, dean of the School of Economics and Foreign Relations, Universidad Americana, Paraguay, and former ambassador of Paraguay to the United States; and Alexander F. Watson, managing director, Hills and Company, and former assistant secretary, Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

The program fee is $125; faculty and students get special consideration with valid ID. RSVP to [email protected]. For more information, please call Isabel Artime at 305-284-9918 or visit www.miami.edu/chp.