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What is happening politically in Mexico today is difficult to believe even for the Mexicans themselves. The PAN (National Action Party) rules and uses priist politics, the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), in the opposition is panist and the PRD (Democratic Revolution Party) is lost, outside of reality.

Why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is much more than just a fad. An in depth study of the structural forces that are bringing businesses in developed countries towards more social responsibly. What is demanded of today’s corporations regarding familial responsibility and the paradox of Latin America.

• More Corporate Responsibility
  por Bernardo Kliksberg
• Climate Change Hits the Poorest, Hardest
  por Bernardo Kliksberg
• Obscene Disparities
  por Bernardo Kliksberg

No one doubts the overwhelmingly strong force that is the current Brazilian economy. Brazil’s production represents a third of the total of Latin America. Large local conglomerates in the sectors of iron and steel, mining, oil, and manufacturing are paving the way toward globalization. However, optimism decreases upon reviewing some empirical data. Why economic growth less than expected, including a 5 percent average growth rate, one inferior to its neighbors. Is it the responsibility of the Central Bank of Brazil and its monetary policy? Divisions among analysts.

• Venezuela does not want another Putin
  por Iraxis Bello
• Hope for Guatemala?
  por Javier Bernabé
• The Challenges of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Foreign Policy
  por Luciano Anzelini
• Rafael Correa and the "mother of all battles"
  por Juan Pablo Morales Viteri
• Nicaragua, Second Sandinista Government
  por Augusto Zamora R.

Is Latin America divided into two models, as Europe maintains it is? For the author, it is actually diversity and heterogeneity that prevail. Paradoxically, in the forest of the distinct situations that exist today in Latin America, the success stories (Chile, Brazil, Peru and Colombia) are those that make less noise and receive less attention.

• The bitter taste and the lessons from Santiago de Chile
  por Fabián Bosoer
• How to Overcome the Mercosur Crisis
  por Luciano Anzelini
• How to Strengthen the Integration between Brazil and Argentina
  por Javier del Rey Morató
• Mexico Searches for a Global Strategy Against Drug-Trafficking
  por Zidane Zeraoui

For the benefit of all of its citizens, Latin America should leave behind the ideas of regressive utopias, and that of the cold war confrontation, in order to search for and take the path which is neither leftist nor rightist, but rather centrist. Progress and modernity are not in the extremes; in reality, they never were.

• The Globalization of Brazil
  por Marcelo Luchino

Hugo Chávez must build bridges to the other bank: if the president suffers from arrogance, his adversaries lack the slightest bit of endurance, says the author. If the rise in internal confrontations and the excessive international pressure following the referendum persists, there will be a strong social split. Dialog and internal consensus are missing in the Venezuela of today, and barriers abound, he points out.

Among other topics, relations with Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile, the reactive gestures and pragmatism with Washington, economic management and the renegotiation of the foreign debt have marked Buenos Aires’ foreign policy during Néstor Kirchner’s term of office. To understand what challenges Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will face in the realm of foreign policy, in this article I take stock of Argentina’s achievements and mistakes during the period of 2003–2007.

What are the reasons for holding the Iberian-American summits? And for not holding them. Where does the skepticism come from? What was expected of Summit XVII in Santiago de Chile? Are these Summits justified? The Parallel Summit. The importance of face-to-face meetings. The debate about institutional quality in Latin America. Next, the first part of the analysis.