This volume brings together essays on Latin American politics, economics, and
culture written over the past fifteen years
by Mark Falcoff, a resident scholar at AEI and the author of its monthly Latin American Outlook. According to Foreign Affairs, "This book demonstrates why Falcoff . . . has become the most formidable conservative commentator on Latin America in the United States."
Mr. Falcoff has
written several books, including Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What It Wants (AEI Press, 1998) and is currently working on a major study of U.S.-Cuban relations. This summary is abridged from the introduction to A
Culture of Its Own.