LATIN AMERICA:
Who Lost Latin America?*

By Niall Ferguson

James Monroe must be turning over in his grave. Niall Ferguson explores our strange indifference to events south of the border.

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Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson is also a professor of history at Harvard University and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University. He specializes in political and financial history and provides insight into understanding the complex interaction among politics, war, and national economies. His most recent book is The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.