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Medvedev is the paragon of a top corporate-statist-technocrat executive for the new Russian corporate state. Prior to 2002, when he came to head Gazpromexport, Medvedev had never been involved with natural gas. Born in the far eastern island of Sakhalin to the family of a Soviet air force officer, he left the island in his teens. In 1978, upon graduation from the fabled Phystech, Moscow's Institute of Physics and Technology--Russia's answer to M.I.T.--Medvedev, who majored in automated control systems, got a job with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO...
...played up by leftists in South America and their sympathizers in the West. In many cases, critics use Pinochet’s human rights abuses as convenient philosophical dressing to cloak the real reason for why they oppose him: He successfully proved the fallacies of the destructive ideology of statist socialism—an ideology void of morality, contrary to human nature, and totally dysfunctional in practice. It is ideologically opposed to the principles on which modern Western nations were founded, yet unfortunately still enjoys deep support at Harvard and throughout the Western intellectual establishment. Pinochet spent his political career...
...This year's election season across the continent was widely billed as a battle for Latin America's soul: Venezuela's contest is the last of a grueling 10 presidential races since last December that pitted Washington's globalization agenda against the more statist policies of the new Latin American left. And with leftist economist and Chavez pal Rafael Correa defeating conservative billionaire Alvaro Noboa in this week's Ecuador run-off vote, a Chavez win will give the left a 6-4 edge. But the intensity of the contest will be demonstrated elsewhere on Friday - at the inauguration...
...fully reflect the complexity of politics in this country,” he said. “But I am not convinced that religion is the second gradient that can best complement it. I have always been more convinced by the combination of left-right and statist-libertarian gradients...
...America’s last half-millennium, evaluating watershed moments with Vargas Llosa’s trademark enthusiasm for the free market. Concentrating on such ostensible reforms as the Mexican Revolution, economic nationalism, and the liberalizing policies of the 1990s, the book establishes that Latin America’s statist culture has stifled economic growth by limiting individual rights. Far from liberation, these “reforms” meant that “ownership changed hands while property rights remained in the hands of the government...