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ID:
085755
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| Summary/Abstract |
hen the global financial and economic
crises erupted over the past year, there
was speculation that the Latin American
and Caribbean (LAC) region could insulate
itself substantially from external developments-
that the LAC countries could "decouple" themselves
from the recession in the United States and
other developed countries. In fact, while the LAC
region seems to be making it through the worldwide
storm better than it would have before the
twenty-first century, it has not decoupled itself
from the global economic situation.
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ID:
085758
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Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, who enjoys more
domestic power and higher international
name recognition than any other president
of a Latin American democracy, is now facing serious
political troubles. Since mid-2007, the Chávez
administration has been beset by street protests,
electoral setbacks, and economic woes that amount
to a second wave of discontent.
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ID:
085756
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Many experts in the United States and
Latin America believe that Washington
has not paid sufficient attention to the
Americas in recent years. They warn that this indifference
may prove costly at a time when the
region is undergoing political, social, and economic
transformations. They believe the United
States is projecting a detached, unsympathetic
attitude just as democratic legitimacy is weakening
across Latin America and populism and
anti-Americanism are gaining momentum.
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ID:
085759
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Just a few years ago, the future looked bright
for Latin America's 40 million indigenous people.
Throughout the hemisphere and particularly
in the ethnically diverse Andes, indigenous
movements were converting protest into concrete
policy gains.
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ID:
085757
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arco-violence has intensified in Mexico
since the early 2000s as a consequence
of the Mexican government's crackdown
on drug cartels. The spiral of violence has included
shootouts on the public squares of big cities
in broad daylight. A grenade attack on September
15, 2008, left eight dead and more than one
hundred injured on the central square in Morelia
(the capital of the state of Michoacán), on a night
Mexicans were celebrating the 198th anniversary
of their country's independence.
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ID:
085754
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Just one month before Barack Obama's historic
inauguration, all 33 of the United States' southern
neighbors convened at an unprecedented
"mega-summit" hosted by Brazil, Latin America's
largest country and a rising global power. The
gathering at Costa do Sauipe, in Brazil's eastern
state of Bahia, showcased yet another of the regional
arrangements that are emerging to deal
with a variety of vexing issues.
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