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Spring 2000
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LAS NOTICIAS ESTUDIANTILES
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SOLAS bowling excursion for early
March as a pre-Spring Break celebration. And we have a short film series planned for
this semester where we will show several current Latin American movies. This will be a
great chance for all of us to be exposed to recently released Latin American films. We are
also in the planning stages of a benefit concert to raise money for the flood victims in
Venezuela, which will take place at the end of the semester. Dates for these events will
be announced soon. If anyone has any ideas or would like to help organize these events,
please contact me. We can always use your help and ideas!
I hope everyone has a smooth semester. It has been great seeing so many of you using the
SOLAS computer pod, and I hope you will continue to do so. Please join us for the next
SOLAS meeting, which is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22 at 6:45 pm. I look forward to
continuing to hear the ideas and feedback any of you may have. Take care,
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advantage of the opportunity to learn more
about a variety of topics relating to Latin America (see p. 4).
SOLAS is teaming up with Planners in Latin America (PILA) to participate in a Habitat for
Humanity volunteer day. Mark your calendars! The big day will be Saturday, April 15. More
information will follow on the listserv. I hope many of you will be able to participate.
Also, Jonathan Guerin and I have compiled a listing of some of the abundant volunteer
opportunities throughout Albuquerque in this issue of the newsletter, which I also hope
will be helpful to you.
Jeannie Ellis is busily working on revamping the SOLAS web page (www.unm.edu/~noticias). We have published a calendar on the page that lists the
upcoming Brown Bag Lectures and other events on campus and in the community. We also plan
to include links to other web sites, and much more. If anyone has any suggestions or would
like to share their computer expertise, please contact Jeannie or me at the LAII.
We are organizing a |
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Hello and Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing winter break. Welcome back to a new
semester. I would also like to welcome the new students who joined the Latin American
Studies program this semester.
SOLAS has had a busy semester so far, and has much more planned for the rest of the school
year. On February 11, SOLAS and the LAII Program Committee sponsored a Forum on Venezuela,
at which David Myers of Penn State and Brian Crisp of the University of Arizona discussed
the dramatic political and economic changes taking place under the new Chavez
administration. I would like to thank all of you who attended. I hope the forum was
informative. We also hosted an information session on the Jubilee 2000 Debt Relief
Campaign on February 1. If anyone would like to get involved in the Albuquerque
organizational committee for the campaign, please contact me for more information. There
are many more interesting speakers coming to the LAII this semester, so I hope to see all
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Welcome back to classes. I hope that this semester has gotten off to a good start
for each of you. I know that I have been really busy trying to juggle schoolwork and grant
proposals, speakers and other events and I can't wait for spring break.
The beginning of the semester started at RMCLAS for many of us, which was held from
January 12-15 in Santa Fe. The RMCLAS conference is the largest Latin American Studies
conference in the area and this year was no exception. The panels were well attended and
many of our LAS students presented their work here, some for the first time. Most of the
presenters congratulated UNM on a job well done in organizing the conference. I cannot
stress what a fine opportunity RMCLAS can be for students wishing to present their work-
if you ever wanted to pick a first conference, RMCLAS is it.
The LASA conference as you know is coming up in March and a few of us will be presenting
there as well. I am hoping to have a report for LNE's summer issue.
Also, next issue might have a literary supplement if I can get enough submissions, so send
in your essays, stories, artwork, photography and poetry and we'll see what happens.
Special thanks this issue to Melissa Ewer, our co-editor, who did a fantastic job putting
together this issue. We have essays from Lorena Olmos and Jonathan Treat, and combined
with the Chavez story and Ecuador news, this might be the best issue yet. Your comments
and criticisms on what is published are always welcome, please get in touch with us.
Have a great semester,
KIM NOLAN, EDITOR
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Las Noticias Estudiantiles
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Aura Princesa
Aura, minha princesa,
como posso separar seu mistério
da minha própria consciência?
Como profunda atmosfera,
você circunda meu corpo,
anima meus sentidos,
penetra minha essência.
No ermo do meu coração,
você é força de amor,
inspiração de luz,
proposição de vida.
Aura, minha princesa,
desvende o mistério por fim--
suavize minha jornada;
exalte minha alma;
preencha o meu ser.
--Joel Matthew Young
Joel is a Ph.D candidate in LAS
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Las Noticias Estudiantiles
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Aura Princesa
Aura, my princess,
how can I possibly separate the mystery of you
from my own consciousness?
Like some profound atmosphere,
you surround my body,
animate my senses,
penetrate my being.
In the wilderness of my heart,
you are love's force,
light's inspiration,
life's proposition.
Aura, my princess,
solve the mystery at last--
soften my journey;
exalt my soul;
fill me with you.
--Joel Matthew Young
© 1999, Joel M. Young
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(Continued from page 1)
and ANC vice
president Isaias Rodriguez to be the country's vice president, an office created under the
new Constitution. Chavez said the vice president will play a key role, including
coordinating relations between the executive and the legislature. The following week,
Chavez appointed Eliecer Otaiza to head Venezuela's secret police, replacing retired Col.
Jesus Urdaneta, who resigned because of a conflict with the foreign minister over charges
of police abuse during the floods. Chavez also appointed former Congress president Luis
Davila as the new interior and justice minister. Davila, a retired army colonel, replaced
Ignacio Arcaya, who returns to his previous post as ambassador to the UN. Army Gen. Ismael
Hurtado will be the new defense minister, replacing Gen. Raul Salazar. Salazar is credited
with calming tension that appeared within the armed forces because of the opposition of
some high-ranking officers to Chavez's election.
DIPLOMATIC SPAT WITH US
Meanwhile, the US and Venezuelan governments tangled when Peter Romero, acting
assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said the Venezuelan
government was poorly run. "We've extended our hand to Chavez," said Romero in
an interview published in the Madrid daily ABC. "But you don't see a
government in charge, only plebiscites, referendums, more elections, and they tell us
'wait,' but we gringos are not known for our patience." The State Department said
Romero was expressing US concern about Venezuela's fiscal and economic difficulties. The
US government believes Venezuela should quickly enact financial and fiscal reforms to
establish "an attractive investment climate so as to lay the basis for a durable
market-based recovery," said a State Department statement. Foreign Minister Jose
Vicente Rangel called Romero's comments "unfriendly" and "threatening"
and demanded an explanation. Chavez said Venezuela's diplomacy was based on "self-
determination and mutual respect," adding, "While we listen to every criticism,
we also ask for respect."
CHAVEZ LAYS OUT PLANS ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY
On Feb. 2, Chavez marked his first anniversary in office, touting the reduction in
inflation in 1999, the stability of the exchange rate, and high foreign reserves.
"Now comes the stage of transforming into reality what has been planted as a seed in
the Constitution," said Chavez. The president promised Venezuelans that this year the
crisis-ridden economy would "take off," and that, by the year 2010, the poverty
currently affecting 80% of the population will have been eliminated. Business associations
have continuously called on Chavez to take measures to boost the economy and favor foreign
investment, and the president indicated a shift in government focus toward the economy for
the coming year. He announced a reduction in the value-added tax (impuesto al valor
agregado, IVA) from 15.5% to 14.5%, as well as an immediate lifting of the tax on
stock-market transactions and the elimination in May of the tax on bank transactions.
Compensation for the 1% decrease in the IVA will come from a reduction in the number of
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