Latin America
February 2003

February Article Abstracts

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Title: Latin America's New Political Leaders: Walking on a Wire
Author: Michael Shifter
"Today's underlying political currents in Latin America are less about ideology and more about a public desire to find leaders who can effectively address everyday problems, and who do so honestly. The formulas of the past-whether 'socialism' in the 1970s or 'neoliberalism' in the 1990s-have been widely questioned, and largely dismissed. With traditional ideas and structures breaking apart, new leaders are being called on to produce results."
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Title: Good-Bye to the Washington Consensus?
Author: James E. Mahon, Jr.
"Latin Americans might have expected, after following the free-market economic policies of the 'Washington consensus' for a dozen years, that the region would have begun to savor the fruits of openness. But with some exceptions-notably Chile, Costa Rica, and much of Mexico-the fruit has turned out to be bitter, as economic openness appears to have accelerated social disintegration."
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Title: Argentina: Anatomy of a Crisis Foretold
Author: Pamela K. Starr
"As 2002 came to an end, the Argentine economy seemed to have touched bottom after contracting more than 10 percent. But a robust recovery during 2003 will be blocked by many of the same forces that helped create Argentina's economic catastrophe: the hard-line stance of the IMF, the muddle that is Argentine politics, and a dispirited and politically disaffected populace."
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Title: Between Politics and Economics:The IMF and Argentina
Author: Carol Graham and Paul Masson
"The Argentina crisis will not provide an opportunity to make a break with the past and take the imf in the new directions that director Horst K”hler has enunciated. Instead, the fund needs to accept that the humanitarian crisis in Argentina demands quick disbursement with relaxed conditionality."
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Title: Colombia and the United States: From Counternarcotics to Counterterrorism
Author: Arlene B. Tickner
"The worldview that has molded Washington's twin wars on drugs and terrorism constitutes an extremely narrow framework through which to address the complex problems Colombia faces. National security, defined exclusively in military terms, has taken precedence over equally significant political, economic, and social considerations."
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Title: "Cutting the Wire": The Landless Movement in Brazil
Author: Jan Rocha
"The emergence at the end of the twentieth century of a mass organization of landless peasants demanding land reform can only be understood when viewed against Brazil's archaic land structure, where 1 percent of landowners own 46 percent of the land and government inspectors are still discovering slave labor on Amazon cattle ranches."
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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: Letter to the Editor
Author: Daniel Larison
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Title: Latin America
A map of Latin America
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