Latin America Wants to Rejoin the World, But Is It Too Late?

One lesson from Latin America is that governments can ease inequality through social programmes. Another is that disconnecting from the world makes the poor worse off, as they are today in Venezuela. Having gone through its anti-globalisation backlash, Latin America is finding that the world now offers fewer easy gains than in the past. So it will be hard to make up for lost time. But at least the region is (mostly) back on the right track.