In most English language international news sources Latin American coverage gets buried under mountains of stories on Europe, Asia, the Middle East, in fact just about anywhere that isn't Latin America. So it is with real pleasure that I note the Economist's explicit intent to expand coverage of the region and it's selection of Uruguay as 2013 country of the year. Uruguay would have to be on the short list of any publication that is paying attention to the rather large chunk of the planet that lies south of the US/Mexican boarder. Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has shown a level of leadership that is truly remarkable in a world that has become overweight on a global level with wealth on the one side and the majority of people who have so very little on the other like opposing balls on a rather long dumbbell.
Read the Economist story here:
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