Latin America
February 2007
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Title: The Year of the Ballot
Author: Jorge Castaneda and Patricio Navia
"If governments and the international community learn from and act on the lessons of 2006, the hope of a stable, developed, and thriving region will be much closer to becoming a reality. . . ."
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Title: Latin America's Drug Problem
Author: Michael Shifter
"With violence mounting in Mexico and Brazil, and a real risk of deterioration spreading across much of the region, dealing with the drug crisis clearly requires a sharper focus and more imaginative approaches."
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Title: Youth, Violence, and Democracy
Author: Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
"Repressive measures that have targeted youth gangs and criminalized the younger generation threaten the progress of both human rights and democracy."
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Title: How New Is Bachelet's Chile?
Author: Peter M. Siavelis
"If the Bachelet government is to usher in a new, more truly representative democracy, Chile will need to leave behind not just the trappings of Pinochet's institutional legacy, but also the model of elitist politics that it spawned."
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Title: Ecuador's Gamble: Can Correa Govern?
Author: Catherine M. Conaghan
"Rafael Correa faces his greatest challenge yet: how to deliver on his ambitious campaign promises to transform Ecuador, the most politically unstable country in the region."
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Title: Nicaragua's Turning Point
Author: Shelley A. McConnell
"Will President Ortega live up to his democratic discourse, or will the state become a hybrid regime, combining procedural elements of democracy with deep wells of authoritarianism?"
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Title: Perspective: The Other Side of Immigration
Author: Andres Rozental
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Title: Book Reviews: After Fidel: Oh, Brother...
Reviewer: Daniel P. Erikson
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in December 2006, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Latin America
A map of the Latin America.
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