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THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Andres Oppenheimer Andres Oppenheimer is a Miami Herald syndicated columnist, and anchor of the TV Show "Oppenheimer Presenta." He is a member of The Miami Herald team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize, and won Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot award, the King of Spain prize, and the Emmy Suncoast award. He is the author of "Basta de Historias" (Random House, 2010), Saving the Americas (Random House, 2007), Bordering on Chaos, Cronicas de heroes y bandidos, Ojos vendados, and Cuentos Chinos. A new Oppenheimer Report appears every Sunday and Thursday.
E-mail Andres at aoppenheimer @ herald.com Or leave a comment on his columns and he will respond if possible.

In My Opinion

Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s fastest-growing economies of 2013

New economic projections from the World Bank and the United Nations show that Latin America countries will keep growing at moderate rates this year, except for the booming economies of three countries that start with the letter P — Paraguay, Panama and Peru.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela’s Maduro off to a bad start

While media coverage of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration on Friday centered on the contested April 14 election results, a dramatic escalation of government human rights violations since the election has gone virtually unnoticed.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela’s Maduro hurts his own case

Venezuela’s proclaimed president-elect Nicolás Maduro’s stunning about face after publicly committing to a recount of the April 14 vote is hurting his own chances of serving his term with an aura of legitimacy, and raises growing questions about the entire election process.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Opposition leader gains new political clout

Venezuela’s opposition candidate Henrique Capriles’ impressive show of force in Sunday’s election — despite an unfair election process in which his rival enjoyed all advantages — has turned official winner Nicolas Maduro into a politically weak president-elect.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela lags behind in social gains

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s endorsement of Venezuela’s interim president Nicolás Maduro in Sunday’s elections has perpetuated one of the biggest myths in Latin American politics — that the Venezuelan government, despite its mistakes, has done more than others to help the poor.
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Mexico’s election may resurrect authoritarian party

MEXICO CITY With virtually all polls showing that soap opera star-looking candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, 45, is likely to win the July 1 elections, the big question is whether his victory would mean a return to Mexico’s corruption-ridden, authoritarian ways of the past. Although times have changed, that may very well happen.
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Is Antanas Mockus better for Colombia -- or Finland?

Colombia's opposition candidate, Antanas Mockus, who according to the latest polls has the best chance of becoming his country's next president, says he will make education, science and technology his government's top priorities.
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After 50 years, Cuba has little to show

Fifty years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, the big question about the Cuban revolution is not whether it was justified, but whether it was worth it. From all available evidence, it wasn't.