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AMERICAS / BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Nothing takes the "happy" out of Happy New Year like the thought of Barack Obama in the White House for four more years. Elsewhere in the hemisphere, the outlook is equally grim in many countries. But believe it or not, a few countries are getting things right.
The losers are easy to pick out. Fidel Castro still fogs a mirror, and the military government in Venezuela will probably continue wrecking the economy even if Hugo Chávez succumbs to cancer. The prospects of Argentina ever retiring peronismo remain dim.
Ecuador and Bolivia also fit the loser mold: left-wing populist politics supporting ...
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