CIAO DATE: 12/2011

Americas Quarterly

A publication of:

Council of the Americas

Summer 2011

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• Good Sports: Lionel Messi, Albert Pujols, Marta Vieira, and other star athletes from the hemisphere highlight their favorite causes.

• Brazil's Long To-Do List

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Can Brazil build the massive infrastructure it needs to host the Olympics and the World Cup?

• It's Not Your Grandfather's Hemisphere

  Arturo Valenzuela

  The U.S. moves beyond traditional diplomacy.

• Baseball's Recruitment Abuses

  Rob Ruck

  Unscrupulous agents prey on young Dominican players. It's time to clean up their mess.

• Madame Officer

  Sabrina Karim

  Peru's anti-corruption gambit.

• Multimedia: Scissors Dancers

  Dating back to pre-Columbian times, the Quechua Scissors Dance is still practiced in Peru. Photos by Nicolas Vallaume.

• Sports Populism

  Simon Kuper

  Fans like their teams—but not necessarily the politicians who support them.

• Is the OAS Irrelevant?

  Anthony DePalma

• Covering Sports in Latin America

  Lisa Delpy Neirotti, Jeffrey Bliss

• Hearts, Minds and Bottom Lines

  Simon Wardle

• GOOOOOOL...for Development

  Fabian Koss

• Baseball's Newest Farm System

  Richard Feinberg

• Ask the Experts: Sports—Business, Integration & Social Change

  Larry Rohter, Mick Cornett, Robert A. Baade, Marty Markowitz

• There But Not Equal

  Juan C. Cappello