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Annual June conference in Miami has been helping and shaping Latin America for decades Opinion
BY ALLAN ROSENBAUM
JUNE 15, 2019 06:15 PM, UPDATED 41 MINUTES AGO
Historically, Latin America has been characterized by highly centralized, often dictatorial, and frequently brutal governments.
However, over the past four decades, despite some highly visible occasional setbacks, Latin America has been the scene of significant efforts to build more democratic societies.
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They will be participating in what has become the largest annual non-political gathering of Latin Americans concerned with the building of local government.
The conference will be kicked off with a keynote address by Luis Alberto Moreno, the president of the hemisphere’s most important multinational organization, the Inter-American Development Bank.
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https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article231607928.html
