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A discussion about Latin America with Greg Grandin, Associate Professor of Latin American history at New York University, John Coatsworth, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Former Vice President of Costa Rica and Michael Shifter, Incoming President of Inter-American Dialogue.
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robdverity 04/12/2010 04:16 PM Report
Our movie industry will preserve our image of ourselves - for ourselves. We will be jingoistically unaware, thumping our chest into the millenia unaware that the world is disinterested.
REMant 04/12/2010 12:18 PM Report
It does seem as if there's a lot fewer dictatorships than there were and hence a lot fewer insurgencies. The insurgents, however, seem to have turned into Mafiosi, while we are still fighting them the same as before. Years ago the Southern hemisphere was tied to the north as providers of raw materials, which subsequently drying up unsettled the rather feudal, but largely democratic and rather then prosperous political order, increasing both poverty and autocracy. But in recent years many have emerged as more independent states, increasingly manufacturing on their own. There are a number of areas in which Brazil and Chile far surpass the US, for examples, Brazil's alternative fuel use, and Chile's social programs. Other countries are betwixt and between, but I do think on the whole that the socialists have been the agents of progress. It seems tho that we still want to consider them banana republics, which, of course, is our problem with a lot of the rest of the world, particularly the Far East and has been since WWII. I suspect they will all simply go around us, with China leading the way, leaving us to face a rather destitute British-style old age.