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Pain in the Middle; Too much of the world is getting poorer, not richer. That's bad news for us all.
Byline: David Rothkopf (Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is the author of "Running the World," a history of U.S. foreign-policy making since the second world war.)
The failure of the recent Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and the unrest in the streets surrounding it were further evidence that despite years of ballyhooed attempts at reform, the political wedge issue in Latin America remains as it has for decades: social inequity. Democracy, it turns out, is not in and of itself enough to enfranchise the poorest or to knit fragmented societies together. Not even when linked with freer markets. ...
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