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Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 |
November 9, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Amy Lunday acl@jhu.edu 443-287-9960 |
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, will speak about proposed constitutional reforms and their potential impact at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 20, in Hodson Hall, Room 110, on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Ambassador Alvarez will discuss a package of constitutional reforms that would alter 69 articles of the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela. If voters approve the reforms in a national referendum in December, they will — among other things — extend government benefits to informal sector workers, shorten the work week to 36 hours, give government funding to local communal councils, ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, lower the voting age to 16 and permit continual presidential reelection.
The talk will provide an opportunity to hear a
firsthand account of political changes taking place in
Venezuela and their significance abroad. A bio of
Ambassador Alvarez is available online at
www.embavenez-us.org/?pagina=pag_ambassadors_
bernardoa.php&titulo=The%20Ambassador#1.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Eduardo Gonzalez of Johns Hopkins at 410-516-4615, eduardo.gonzalez@jhu.edu.
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