The respondents picked him, they told the interviewers, because he “gets results … knows how to get things done.” All they had to do was look at Chile’s amazing progress since the troubled ’70s and ’80s.
Chile is booming so remarkably that, on top of the Zogby poll, The Americas Society just awarded Lagos its top award, the Americas Society Gold Insigne, in recognition of his outstanding leadership in Chile and the hemisphere. There he has dramatically pushed free trade and integration into the global economy. Today, Chile is in the midst of negotiating trade agreements with China, India, New Zealand and Singapore and has become the “gateway to Asia” for all of Latin America.
Ah, but still we yearn … Where are the melodramatic speeches, the raw emotion, the gnawing guilt, the sensual yearning of the old handsome, headstrong Latin caudillos? Where are the old strongmen who held their people under their spell even as Chavez and Castro do today? Most important, what of the need for those traditional caudillos?
Could one dare to think that Latin Americans might be passing by the charming seductiveness, the soul-stealing shamanistic magic of those old Latin leaders? Of Juan Peron in Argentina, of Janio Quadros of Brazil, of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera of 1930s Spain? That Latin America might actually be growing practical, growing politically sophisticated, growing up?
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The tabloids are so desperate to see Jennifer Aniston happily in love that rumours of her dating 'The Break-Up' co-star Vince Vaughn have resurfaced in the headlines.
According to Ananova.com, some newspapers are carrying of shots of her and Vince looking in love and hugging.
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