President Barack Obama has never been terribly interested in Latin America, but the new political winds in Argentina, Venezuela and the latest events in Brazil offer him a golden opportunity to improve U.S. relations with the region.…
When Peruvian-born Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa told me in a public interview in front of 300 newspaper editors last weekend that "corruption is the biggest threat to Latin American democracies," my first reaction was to think that it was an exaggeration. But, on second thought, he…
In the early 1980s, as was the case in much of Latin America, Costa Rica suffered its worst economic crisis in decades. Between 1980 and 1982 the economy contracted by 9.4 percent, and in 1982 average inflation reached 90.1 percent. In two years the proportion of the population…
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In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take…
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Email this page Editor’s Note: The views reflected in this Op-Ed are those of the author and do…