Ricardo Maduro Joest, former president ofHonduras, will deliver a public lecture on political and economic issues in Latin America at 6 p.m. Monday (Oct. 9) in theHesburghCenterauditorium at the University of Notre Dame.

TitledNew Democracies, Poverty and Governance,the talk is free and open to the public.

The Honduran president from 2002 to 2006, Maduro was the sixth leader of the country to be elected sinceHondurasreturned to democracy in 1982.

Maduro began his political career in the 1980s as a founding member of the Unity and Change movement, designed to reinvigorate the National Party. The movement catapulted Rafael Callejas to the presidency in 1989 with Maduro serving as campaign manager in 1985 and 1989 and as president of the National Party Central Committee. Callejas named Maduro president of the Central Bank from 1990 to 1994.

Under Maduros guidance,Hondurasnegotiated and ratified the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), became the first Latin American country to sign a Millennium Challenge Account compact with theUnited States, and actively promoted greater Central American integration. As president he implemented a universal school lunch program and promoted legislative changes that opened the political parties and strengthened the rule of law inHonduras.

In memory of his son Ricardo Ernesto, who was killed in a 1997 kidnapping attempt, Maduro established an education foundation, FEREMA, to promote policy change in education.

A successful businessman, Maduro has founded and organized many differentcompanies, ranging from agriculture businesses to hotels. He won the 1983 Honduran American Chamber of CommerceBusinessman of the Yearaward, one of many for his business achievements.

Maduro serves on the advisory board of Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91视频.

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University of Notre Dame political scientist Scott Mainwaring has coedited a new book that analyzes and explains the challenges facing democratic representation in five Andean countries:Bolivia,Colombia,Ecuador,PeruandVenezuela.

The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes,published by Stanford University Press, is coedited by Ana Mar铆a Bejarano and Eduardo Pizarro Leong贸mez, former visiting fellows at Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91视频.Nine of the 11 contributors are former visiting fellows at the institute.

Understanding what has gone wrong with democracy in Latin America and many other 聭third wavedemocracies has become one of the outstanding intellectual challenges of our day,writes Mainwaring, Kelloggs director, and his co-editors.The widespread dissatisfaction with democratic representation is a core ingredient in the crisis of democracy in the Andes and throughout much ofLatin America.

In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside.

Mainwaring said that these five countries have the potential to benegative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes.His new book addresses an important question forLatin Americaas well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?

Mainwaring holds the Eugene Conley Chair in Political Science. Ana Mar铆aBejarano is an assistant professor of political science at theUniversityofToronto, and Eduardo Pizarro Leong贸mez is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogot谩.

The Crisis of Democratic Representation in theAndes,can be ordered from Stanford University Press at

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