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I was watching the news about the Summit of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the other day and suddenly found myself, like Marcel Proust biting into a madeleine, awash in remembrance of things past. It transported me back to the days of my youth, the 1970s and 1980s when certain Latin American leaders, usually in guerilla fatigues and strangely fascinating to the American media as a result, ranted about the bright future that socialism, if not outright communism, promised for Latin America's poor and marginalized. The experience was not a sweet one and has not brought on Proustian inspirations.
On the whole the summit did not go badly. Of the 34 nations in the Americas, 29--among them Mexico, Chile, Canada and the United States--agree that a...
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