IT WAS THE kind of grouping that could only happen
at Davos. Five Latin American presidents were assembled in
one place in February, for a panel discussion: Alvaro Uribe
of Colombia, Eduardo Duhalde of Argentina, Alejandro Toledo
of Peru, Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Lula of Brazil. Uribe
explained the economic reforms that he had managed to push
through with the aid of his finance minister, Roberto
Junguito, who was sitting next to Francisco Gil Diaz, his
Mexican counterpart.
Gil, recalls Junguito, could barely believe what he
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