America (RESDAL)

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Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) • Vanderbilt University Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) • Security and Defense Network of Latin

The growth of emerging economies like China and India offers real opportunities for some of the hemisphere’s exporters. A May 2009 book published by the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC)

focuses on what Argentina must do if it wants to
reach the new global middle class. Market Hunters:
Trade and Export Promotion in the Argentine Prov-
inces, written by Lucio Castro
and Daniel Saslavsky, argues
that the concentration of
Argentine exporters hampers
expansion and recommends
improvements in infrastruc-
ture, business environment and
inter-governmental coordina-
tion. Available in English and

Spanish.

The Vanderbilt University Latin American Public Opinion Project’s (LAPOP) Insights series looks at statistical evidence drawn from the AmericasBarom-eter survey from 2004 and 2008 that demonstrated Honduras’ unusual vulnerability to political instability in the years prior to the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Authored by Mitchell Seligson and John Booth in August, Predicting Coups? Democratic Vulnerabilities, The AmericasBa-rometer and The 2009 Honduran Crisis reveals how pre-coup Honduras was 19 times more vulnerable to instability than the most stable country in the survey, Costa Rica. Available in English and Spanish.

Step aside, sunbath- ers. From Decem- ber 3 to 6, 2009, Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prominent art fair in the U.S., will again transform the city into the country’s temporary art capital.

The show, founded in

2002 as the winter version of Switzerland’s famed Art Basel, is expected to attract the work of artists from 33 countries and an estimated 40,000 international visitors. At least

250 art galleries participate in the event, which has “put Miami on the map of the contemporary art world,” according to Frederic Snitzer, a member of the art fair’s selection committee.

Art Basel Miami Beach is also an important meeting point for the contemporary art world in the Americas. About

20 galleries from Latin

America will participate, including Galería Casas Riegner in Bogotá. Casas Riegner—a branch of Miami’s famed Casas Riegner—is showing “modern, transformative works” (see picture) from a new generation of artists such as Mateo López, a 31-year-old Colombia native who is returning to the show for his third consecutive year.

Art connoisseurs can also enjoy a number of unaffiliated art fairs on the fringes of the event featuring new artists and galleries that have contributed to South Florida’s cultural transformation. Admissions costs were not available at press time, but are expected to remain unchanged from last year’s $35 per day.

ART
Miami Style

For more information, visit:

www.americasquarterly.
org/art-basel

ART BASEL: COURTESY GALERIA CASAS RIEGNER

Parlamento y defensa en América Latina, el papel
de las comisiones: (Parliament and Defense
in Latin America: The Role
of Commissions) Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Ven-
ezuela, a June 2009 Security
and Defense Network of Latin
America (RESDAL) publica-
tion analyzes how legislatures
in each of the Andean countries
develop security and defense