By Stansfield Smith
Updated schedule for Steve Ellner Speaking Tour on the Hardship Imposed on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions
Steve Ellner tentative tour schedule so far :
Thursday, Oct. 25: 12:00pm SALA lunch
Thursday Oct. 25 7:00pm Consumnes River College, Sacramento, California
Friday, Oct, 26 7:30 pm Task Force on Americas event
Sunday, Oct. 28, 10:30 am, Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Sunday, Oct. 28, 4:00 pm Rossmoor w/potluck dinner
Wednesday, Oct. 31: 3pm UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center/Center for Latino Policy Research
Friday Nov 2 2pm Western Oregon University, Monmouth
Friday Nov 2 7 pm Corvallis, Oregon
Saturday Nov 3 Portland 5:30 dinner, 6:30 pm event: The Hardship Imposed on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions
Sunday Nov 4 dinner with National Lawyers Guild Convention members
Monday Nov 5 Olympia Washington evening Public event
Tuesday Nov 6, 2pm Evergreen College
November 7-9 Seattle
Saturday, November 10, Minneapolis
Monday, Nov. 12, 12 noon, University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies. Foster Hall, Room 103 (1130 E 59th St)
Monday, Nov. 12, 7 pm, Evanston Public Library
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 12:30 pm Purdue University NW (Hammond, IN)
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1:30 pm Student Peace Action Network, McHenry County College Crystal Lake, Illinois
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6:30 pm Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin
Thursday, Nov. 15, 6 pm University of Missouri, Kansas City
Friday November 16 University of Missouri, Kansas City, Latinx and Latin American Studies Program
Saturday, December 1, 1 pm Barco Law Building, University of Pittsburgh, co-sponsored by Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League
Monday, December 3, Columbus, Ohio
Steve Ellner earned his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of New Mexico in 1980. Since 1977 he has taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela and for a ten year period taught in the graduate school of law and political science of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Among his book publications are:
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Polarization and the Chávez Phenomenon. (2008);
Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (co-editor, 2003);
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional” Democracy” (co-editor, 2007);
The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in Twenty-First Century (2019)