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Activity Report José Acuña Walner Chains, student representative of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party in the Master of Applied Political Studies (MEPA) in Madrid, Spain

I share with you the most relevant activities in my preparation for the months of January. February and March 2009. Also, I'm finishing the 2nd year of PhD in Government and Public Administration.

The MEPA has proven to be a training program, which is useful for the training of young politicians. It is a quality training program inspired by democratic values ​​that strengthen the leadership qualities of young Latin Americans and provides a set of knowledge and practical tools for political action. The group MEPA in its eleventh edition, includes 22 youngsters from 14 Latin American countries, representing various political parties and movements of different ideologies.

Head of Coordination of the Civil Guard of Spain, Felix Hernandez Martin, gave us the kind of Public Safety, revealing the strategies that have ensured safety.

Workshop at the Spanish Agency for International Development where we explained the mechanisms used for management and implementation of public policies for development cooperation aimed at combating poverty and achieving sustainable human development in developing countries.

Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, who is president of the Board of FIIAPP at the opening of the cultural activities of MEPA.

Arturo Valenzuela is one of the strongest candidates to take over Barack Obama's foreign policy towards Latin America. His name sounds strong because of their knowledge of the region. The Chilean gave his lecture to students at Casa Latin American "Challenges to Democratic Governance in Latin America"

Municipality of Alcobendas, where we showed an excellent model of management which has ensured the quality of Citizen, won several awards for Excellence and has been a model of several municipalities in Spain.

Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, 1998, at a meeting of graduate students in Madrid, where he received a talk presented us their views on the global economic crisis, its effects and possible solutions.

Enrique Guerrero, former deputy director of the Office of the Prime Minister and current advisor to executive vice president, took the Ministry of Strategy and Communications Madrid Socialist Party (PSOE), we taught a class on "executive position in contemporary democracies." He is currently a candidate for deputy in the European Parliament.

Visit the Senate, where we were in a regular session of the Senate and an explanation of its main operation.

Pedro Chavez Giraldo, political partner of the Presidency of the United Left Party (IU), gave a talk about the Left's participation in political life of Spain. IU has made coalition with the PSOE to govern the country.

Mexico's ambassador to Spain Jorge Zermeno Infante, in a meeting with Mexican students in Spain, we talked about his performance as representative of Mexico.

Joan Prats, director of the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia, who has written several books on governance, we gave a lecture on "Consensus and Conflict in the current governance."

Judge of the Constitutional Court of Spain, Pablo Perez Tremps. The visit to this institution enlightened us on the functioning of the supreme body, which is the interpreter of the Spanish Constitution.

Former Deputy Rafael Garcia, who is the operator electoral Spanish Socialist Workers Party, we gave a talk on the PSOE's electoral organization to face election campaigns. I'm joined by colleagues from Brazil and Ecuador.

Institute of Latin America in Salamanca, Spain. We went to a seminar entitled "Problems of Democracy in Latin America" ​​organized by Manuel Alcantara, researcher and author of several books on political systems, political parties and political elites in Latin America.

Rector of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Carlos Berzosa, presented the seminar on the "crisis of democracy" in the university. Teachers taught the seminar at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Join my partner in Chile.

Judge of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation in Mexico, Constancio Carrasco Daza. He gave a talk on electoral reform of 2007 in the table topic on "Institutions and citizens: government management in the midterm elections of 2009."

Institutional Workshop at the Congress of Deputies, where he made the speech on government systems, the advantages of Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.

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