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Article: Latin America's crony capitalism.(Alvaro Vargas Llosa)(Interview)
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- November 1, 2005
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In the 1990s, as countries across Latin America announced their embrace of market reforms, economists expected them to boom. Most stagnated instead. Independent Institute Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa looks for the roots of the continent's problems--and a way to escape them-in Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression. Assistant Editor Julian Sanchez spoke with Vargas Llosa in August.
Q: What are the origins of Latin America's development problems?
A. We came under the control of Spain and Portugal at a time when those two countries were heavily corporatist, heavily mercantilistic. Spain passed about a million ...