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How often has an American or European businessman been astonished to have his Mexican or Brazilian counterpart break off discussions without explanation and refuse to return his calls? This book helps non-Latin American businessmen or MBA students address the region. If you want to study or work in Latin America this is a must read.

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Introduction; R.Crane & C.Rizowy Regional Organizations, Trade Blocs and Inter-State Conflicts in Latin America: History And Evolution; A.Mitre Argentina; R.B.Fernández & K.Fernández Brazil; L.A.Machado , J.M.Rodríguez Ramos , O.Nogami & M.V.Freitas Chile; Dr. Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Costa Rica; R.Monge González & L.Torrentes García Dominican Republic; R.B.Saladín Ecuador; L.Valencia Rodríguez Mexico; M.Delgado & B.J.Calder Panama; N.A.Barletta Uruguay; C.Steneri , S.Sosa & I.De Posadas Spain: Influence, Inspiration, the Roots Of Latin America´s Development Process; A.Eguiron Vidarte

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LIC. KATHERINA FERNµNDEZ Economic Consultant for the House of Representatives National Government of Argentina and Assistant Professor in Economics and Macroeconomics at Universidad del Cema, Argentina DR. ROQUE FERNµNDEZ Former Minister of Economics and Public Works, former Chairman of the Central Bank of Argentina, co-founder and Member of the Board of the University of Cema, member of the National Academic Board of Economic Sciences OTTO NOGAMI Professor of Microeconomics at FAAP and Managerial Economics at Ibmec Sao Paulo, Brazil MARCUS VINICIUS FREITAS Professor of Law and International Relations at Funda‡Æo Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP JOSÉ MARIA RODRIGUEZ RAMOS Economics Program Coordinator at Funda‡Æo Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) LUIZ ALBERTO MACHADO Dean of the Funda‡Æo Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) School of Economics HERNµN FELIPE ERRµZURIZ CORREA, lawyer, is a partner of the law firm: Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa & Errázuriz, Advisor to the Chilean Foreign Minister; Member of the editorial board and columnist of El Mercurio newspaper; member of the board of Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo RICARDO MONGE-GONZµLEZ Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Costa Rican Council on Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) and Professor of Economics at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology ANA LAURA TORRENTES GARCÖA economist who works as Project´s Assistant at the High Technology Advisory Committee Foundation - CAATEC DR. ROBERTO B. SALADÖN Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the USA LUIS VALENCIA RODRÖGUEZ, Lawyer, Member of the Ecuadorean Foreign Service. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ecuador to Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Permanent Representative to the United Nations MERCEDES DELGADO Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business BOBBY J. CALDER Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, and currently the Chair of the Marketing Department, at the Kellogg School of Management NICOLµS ARDITO-BARLETTA President of Asesores Estrategicos, S.A., Chairman of Panama Development Corp, and Director General of the NGO Centro Nacional de Competitividad. Former President of the Republic of Panama CARLOS STENERI Director of the Debt Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Uruguay SEBASTIµN SOSA Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) IGNACIO DE POSADAS Partner at the law firm of Posadas, Posadas & Vecino in Montevideo, and Director at Merrill Lynch, P.F. & S, Uruguay ALVARO EGUIRON Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A ANTONIO MITRE is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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