The column is based on a telephone interview with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera. It also includes healthy doses of Oppenheimer's wide-ranging knowledge of the region.
Chile can be very happy with the Oppenheimer conclusion:
Chile’s export-oriented policies, insertion into the global economy and, above all, steady economic course over the past twenty years have done much more to reduce poverty than Latin America’s populist leaders who proclaim themselves champions of the poor.Take that, Hugo Chavez.
