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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: Venezuela Vice President Maduro will raise anti-U.S. rhetoric — for now

With record inflation and skyrocketing crime rates, Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro’s best bet to win Venezuela’s upcoming elections will be to campaign on late President Hugo Chávez’s memory, and to raise tensions with Washington.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Chávez’s ‘revolution’ will lose steam abroad, but not at home

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s death will most likely mark the beginning of the end of Venezuela’s political clout in Latin America, but his influence inside Venezuela is likely to last for many decades.
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Everybody is upbeat on Mexico — except Mexicans

During a visit here last week, I couldn’t help being surprised by the scornful reaction of many Mexicans to the growing consensus in the world media that this is “Mexico’s moment” in the global economy.
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Mexico’s education reform may prove historic

This may be a historic week for Mexico. After decades of unsuccessful efforts to modernize its public education system, President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government arrested almighty teachers’ union leader Elba Esther Gordillo and — perhaps more importantly — signed a constitutional amendment that will allow key education reforms.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Brazil should stop being self-absorbed giant

Brazil, South America’s biggest country, may become a global economic super-star in the future, but it will have to stop being an inward-looking giant.
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Ecuador: Dictatorship of the 21st Century?

Many people are surprised by Rafael Correa’s sweeping victory in Sunday’s Ecuadorean presidential election, despite his government’s massive corruption scandals and his record of repression against the media and political opponents.
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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.