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...world trade could lift annual global output by 0.5% a year, lifting 300 million people out of poverty by 2015. Over the past 30 years, economies that have put trade at the the forefront of their policies--such as Taiwan and Singapore--have grown much faster than those in Latin America and Africa that once tried to shelter behind tariff walls. Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative, recently said, "Trade is a critical element--perhaps the most important element--in economic development, offering the biggest and most lasting dividends...
...Comparing Candidates As an Argentine, I have to disagree that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is a "Latin Hillary" [Oct. 8]. To mark some differences: Fernández does not care to debate policy, she doesn't dare be interviewed by local newsmen, and she certainly has never worked on behalf of poor people. Fernández is a frivolous woman. Norberto Mazzoni, Buenos Aires
...book, Global Warming and Agriculture, uses averages from six climate models and two schools of agricultural-impact models to estimate that in the absence of action, by the 2080s global warming will reduce agricultural productivity 30% to 40% in India, 15% to 25% in Africa and Latin America and 20% to 35% in the southern U.S. and Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect, shutdown of the Gulf Stream and collapse of the West Antarctic ice shelf, curbing carbon dioxide emissions is a small price to pay for insurance, even though adaptation...
...synchrony of two bodies in motion. And for some, it’s a symbol of passion and possession deeply interwoven in structures of social authority. At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the curtain will rise on “Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” a weekend conference in Radcliffe Yard that will interrogate these riddling definitions through a unique combination of theory and praxis.“We have music and we have dance,” says Homi K. Bhabha, the Rothenberg professor of the humanities, who will moderate...
...Many Latin American singers have announced, albeit in broken English, their decisions to become crossover artists with the goal of appealing to a worldwide audience. Paulina Rubio, Carlos Ponce, RBD (these names probably don’t ring any bells): they all tried it with only limited success. Juanes, who has recorded only in Spanish, has achieved the international acclaim that these Latin American artists strove for. Non-Spanish speakers have enjoyed Juanes’s music—no translation necessary. “La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” his first album in three years, happily...