Latin America
February 2002
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Title: A Shaken Agenda: Bush and Latin America
Author: Michael Shifter
"Perennial questions in inter-American relations emerged more sharply than ever after September 11: Would the United States turn its attention away from Latin America and consign the region to irrelevance? Would the United States . . . attempt to impose a broad strategic design, in accord with its global antiterrorist campaign? Or would the United States take advantage of this moment and engage more proactively and constructively with its Latin American partners in pursuit of a shared agenda?"
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Title: Fox’s Mexico: Same as It Ever Was?
Author: Pamela K. Starr
"Since the arrival of Vicente Fox to the presidency, Mexico has been stuck in neutral. The executive has been characterized by confusion, indecision, and repeated policy mistakes. Mexican political parties have shown a striking inability to adjust their behavior to the new democratic political environment. And Mexicans . . . remain steeped in an authoritarian culture that has prevented them from embracing the political opportunities offered by Mexico’s new democratic setting."
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Title: Free Society, Repressed Media: The Chilean Paradox
Author: Judy Polumbaum
For Chilean journalists, when the consequences not so long ago of "offending the wrong people could be lethal, caution was entirely understandable as a matter of physical well-being. Today, deriving from passivity rather than self-defense, it is more a matter of economic, political, and social accommodation."
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Title: Pegged for Failure? Argentina’s Crisis
Author: James E. Mahon, Jr. and Javier Corrales
"The press is full of diagnoses of the Argentine collapse. Most blame the Argentine political class. There is surely truth in this, and it is an opinion shared by millions of Argentines, including the most vocal protestors in Buenos Aires. But this drama has a larger, less easily personalized setting: tax evasion, the stubborn problem of Argentine exports, and global financial volatility."
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Title: Fragile Democracies
Author: Forrest Colburn
"Latin America’s democracies are not in danger of collapse at this time. But there are many real problems, and not many indications that these problems are being addressed with imagination and determination."
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Title: Osama bin Laden as Transnational Revolutionary Leader
Author: Mark N. Katz
"Although the same ‘root causes’ that helped previous transnational revolutionary leaders have also aided Osama bin Laden, he also faces the same obstructing factors they did, and thus his grandiose revolutionary ambitions are failing too."
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Title: Book Review: On Terrorism
Author: William W. Finan, Jr.
The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11 Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, eds. New York: Basic Books, 2001. 232 pp., $22, cloth.
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in December, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Letters to the Editor
Author: Warren W. Smith Barry Sautman
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Title: Latin America
A map of Latin America.
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