The left-wing populism embraced by President Fernandez seems, he says, to exclude considered debate and a necessary change of strategy.

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Former Soviet-dominated states in Eastern Europe, Some European states learning the painful lessons of the collapse of the welfare state, South American nations which are breaking away from left and right wing populism, parts of the long-suffering continent of Africa, Asian city states with low margins for error, swaths of the world are embracing as precious what we throw off as threadbare: economic liberty.

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