Latin America has every right to this by virtue of its spiritual strength and its constant espousal of liberty and international friendship.

Her espousal of free markets indeed, her ringing declarations about the link between political and economic freedom inspired the Soviet bloc s peoples, who had suffered under the Soviet yoke for 40 years.

It is the West s acceptance of corruption either open or tacit that makes it an accomplice to too many nefarious regimes, and makes its espousal of democratic principles appear either hypocritical or contradictory.