Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Director of the Independent Institute's Center on Global Prosperity

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Director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, a nonpartisan, public-policy research center, and author of Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

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Venezuela's  Hugo Chavez  is more critical of the US than Osama bin Laden. Now Ronald Reagan's old nemesis has been re-elected President of  Nicaragua .

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