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– Minnesota State University, Mankato

Page address: http://sbs.mnsu.edu/psle/irelations/orgeasteneda.html

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CAMPUS LECTURE BY FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO - Dr. Jorge Castaneda (April 26, 2007).

TOPIC: "Mexican-American Relations and US Immigration Policy"

 

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Jorge Castañeda is the former-Foreign Minister of Mexico and a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Latin American politics, comparative politics and U.S.-Latin American relations.

Born in Mexico City in 1953, Dr. Castañeda received a B. A. from Princeton University and a B. A. from Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) an M. A. from Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Paris I, and his Ph. D. in Economics History from the University of Paris.

He has taught at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) Princeton, Berkeley and (since 1997) at NYU. Dr. Castañeda was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1985-87) and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant Recipient (1989-1991).

Among his many books are Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War (Knopf, 1993), The Mexican Shock (New Press, 1995), Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Knopf, 1997), and Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen (New Press, 2000).

Dr. Castañeda is a regular columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, and Newsweek International .

Dr. Castañeda's work as Foreign Minister (appointed by President Vicente Fox in 2000) focused on diverse issues in U.S.-Mexican relations including migration, trade, security, and narcotics control; joint diplomatic initiatives on the part of Latin American nations; and the promotion of Mexican economic and trade relations globally.

Since 1997, Dr. Castaneda has been Global Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, New York University. He has been Member of the Board of Human Rights Watch since 2003.