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...America or thematic focus of Latinos. In addition, DRCLAS boasts the largest Internship Placement and Internship Grant program on campus, for students travelling to summer internships in Latin America. University President Lawrence H. Summers has just returned from a trip to Latin America during which he visited Sao Paulo, Brazil, site of a DRCLAS exchange program, and also Santiago, Chile, site of the DRCLAS Regional Office, the only university-wide regional office at Harvard. This should give you an idea of the importance of Latin America for the Harvard community. I hope to see more extensive coverage in the future...
...didn't take long after his election in 2002 for the new President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to make his mark. In Cancun, Mexico, last September, a coalition of developing nations shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Led by Lula and Brazil, the developing world refused to negotiate new foreign-investment rules until powers like the U.S. and the European Union promised to cut the lavish agriculture subsidies that effectively keep developing-world farmers out of lucrative markets. Lula's stance may also derail or seriously dilute the Free Trade Area of the Americas...
...anti-Yankee bluster with economic sobriety. His successes with pension and tax reforms have made Wall Street want to samba. Lula is often cited as the first leader to apply the social activism cum fiscal realism of Europe's "third way" to places where it is more needed. Brazil, for example, has one of the world's most inequitable distributions of wealth. His message: only economic growth can fund antipoverty crusades like his Zero Hunger program. And only by playing hardball within the globalized economic system, he thinks, can developing nations grow...
Born to a poor family, Lula received merely an eighth-grade education. He rose to prominence in Sao Paulo as a fiery labor-union leader and head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party. After losing three presidential races, he finally won in 2002 with a more centrist vision that many development experts see as a model that can be applied elsewhere. Lula's challenges are daunting. Brazil's economy is wheezing again this year, and angry voters around Latin America are protesting a decade of capitalist reforms. But he has staked out a distinct role. Says Eduardo Gamarra, director...
...that C-sections make up less than 15% of all births and less than 9.5% in wealthy, Westernized nations. In England, 22% of all babies are born by C-section. In Italy, the rate has climbed from 21% a decade ago to 33% today. In some private clinics in Brazil, C-section rates are as high...