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Title: Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica articles distributed
Date (inclusive): 1991-2010
Collection Number: 97019
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes
(2.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Paper and computer disk versions of articles, relating to political and economic conditions in Latin America, and especially
to free market reforms in Latin America. Includes indexes.
Creator:
Ball M., Carlos A.
Creator:
Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1997. An increment was received in 2010.
[Identification of item], Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica articles distributed, [Box no., Folder no. or title],
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica (AIPE) was a Spanish-language press agency, based in Boca Raton, Florida, managed
by Venezuelan-American journalist Carlos A. Ball M. Launched in April 1991 by Ball, it offered weekly sets of columns to Spanish-language
newspapers, magazines, and websites throughout Latin America, the U.S., and Spain, until it ceased operation in June 2010.
AIPE editor Ball was director general of
El Diario de Caracas and authored two books on liberty, democracy and corruption before coming to the United States in 1987. A member of the Mont
Pèlerin Society since 1986, he graduated with an MBA from Boston University, and served as an adjunct scholar at the Cato
Institute.
Scope and Content of Collection
Paper and computer disk versions of articles, relating to political and economic conditions in Latin America, and especially
to free market reforms in Latin America. Includes indexes.
Included in this collection are 8,788 Spanish-language newspaper commentaries (op-eds) written between 1991 and mid-2010 by
734 authors for the Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica (AIPE). Most of the authors are prominent classical liberal
analysts from some twenty countries, mainly in Latin America though several are Hoover Institution fellows. The op-eds constitute
a running commentary on economic and political developments throughout the region--and to a lesser degree the world--during
almost two decades that saw (1) the rise and in many ways retreat of the "Washington Consensus," (2) significant improvements
in the monetary and other policies in some countries, (3) several good recent years for some countries in GDP growth, in large
part because of greatly increased exports of natural resources and commodities from South America, particularly to China,
and (4) the emergence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his authoritarian populist "twenty-first-century socialism."
This latter regime and "socialism" won the backing of several Latin American governments and many individuals and marks a
democratically chosen retreat from market economies and enhancement of paternalism that has deep roots in Hispanic culture.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Free enterprise
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-