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Last year, a new administrative position—Vice Provost for International Affairs—was created to govern the University’s international activities and advise the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics Jorge I. Dominguez currently occupies the position...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), which oversees the term-time study abroad programs in Latin America, began offering a series of summer internships in six different Latin American countries last summer...
...Pinochet's supporters, who still make up about half of Chilean society, insist the moustached dictator was himself a product of Latin America's other notorious extreme: intolerant leftism. Their point is at least half valid. Salvador Allende, the left-wing Chilean President whom the military ousted and probably killed, hardly shared Pinochet's bloodlust; but his government had indeed run Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that...
...even the one policy initiative his dictatorship has been widely hailed for - Latin America's first real effort at free-market capitalism, which the rest of the region adopted in the 1990s - looks tarnished today. One leftist President after another has taken the oath of office this year because Latin voters are fed up with the failure of capitalist reforms to narrow the widest divide between rich and poor of any region in the world. And the reason for that failure isn't due so much to capitalism itself - it's due to the fact that capitalism, or socialism...
...Along with the iron fist, Pinochet epitomized another specter that still haunts Latin America: a dogmatic mind. If it continues, the region's addiction to ideological governance - the chronic oscillation between right-wing and left-wing - will keep it from entering the 21st century as surely as Pinochet and leftist despots like Fidel Castro kept it from entering the 20th. Chileans seemed to indulge the old habits Sunday night as Pinochet backers and haters squared off in the streets. But perhaps the reason that Chile's democratic institutions are still more the exception than the rule in South America today...