Andres Oppenheimer

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Andres Oppenheimer
Andres Oppenheimer is a Miami Herald syndicated columnist and a member of The Miami Herald team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. He also won the 1999 Maria Moors Cabot Award, the 2001 King of Spain prize, and the 2005 Emmy Suncoast award. He is the author of Castro's Final Hour; Bordering on Chaos, on Mexico's crisis; Cronicas de heroes y bandidos, Ojos vendados, Cuentos Chinos and most recently of Saving the Americas. A new Oppenheimer Report appears every Sunday and Thursday.
E-mail Andres at aoppenheimer @ herald.com Live chat with Oppenheimer every Thursday at 1 p.m.

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Some Latin nations lead world in red tape

Once upon a time, it used to be that communist countries like China had more business-phobic bureaucracies, more red tape and a worse business environment than capitalist ones. Not anymore.
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Singapore's obsession holds lessons for us all

SINGAPORE -- When school officials from across the world come here to learn why Singapore's students score so well on international science and math tests, it doesn't take them long to discover the secret -- a national obsession with education.
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Alvaro Uribe is closer to a third term -- and to self-destruction

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who enjoys sky-high popularity rates at home thanks to his successful crackdown on narco-terrorist groups, is a step closer to changing the constitution and running for a third consecutive term. The big question is whether this will turn Colombia into a banana republic.
Miami Herald columnist Andrés Oppenheimer wins award

Miami Herald columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrés Oppenheimer won the VII ALGABA prize in biography, autobiography, memoirs, and historical research for a collection of columns that ran in the newspaper and elsewhere and will be published in the book The Non-United States of the Americas. The award came with a prize of $34,404.
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Asia treading near overconfidence

SINGAPORE -- Perusing the newsstand in the Hong Kong airport on my way here, I saw something that caught my eye: most of the books were about China's -- and Asia's -- allegedly unstoppable rise to the world's foremost superpower. Among the books were New Asian Emperors, A Bull in China, China Shakes the World and China into the Future. In the magazines section, you could see The Economist's cover reading, ``Asia's astonishing rebound.''
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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.