What does LASA stand for?

He's also tightened visas for academic exchanges, forcing the Latin American Studies Association last year to move its annual conference from Boston to Montreal.

Latin American Studies Association The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) was founded in 1964 to act as a professional organization for academics of all disciplines and nonprofit organizations interested in the study of Latin America.

The Latin American Studies Association moved its 2007 congress from Boston to Montreal, in protest of the U.

Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL.

2) The Latin American Studies Association, for instance, has responded to this situation with an expanding program of travel grants to enable Latin American scholars to attend its congresses.

Reviewed by Daniel Hellinger A a few years ago, during a panel discussion on democracy at a meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, a participant was holding forth on the remarkable stability of democracy in Costa Rica.

Marshall - President, Consortium of Information and Telecommunications Executives --Patricia Norman, CMP - Director of Conference Services, National Medical Association --Milagros Pereyra - Executive Director, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) --John Saunders III, CAE - Executive Director of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators --Sharon Seay, CMP - Executive Director, National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association --Kim Thompson, Sr.

government denied visas to more than 60 Cubans seeking to attend the Latin American Studies Association conference in Las Vegas in October, 2004 (Associated Press, September 29, 2004).