Economic issues seem to have completely eclipsed discussions of how to strengthen and consolidate democracy and human development in Latin America.
In Central America, peace agreements have been signed and democratic institutions put in place in the countries that were torn by war in the 1970s and 80s.
Many of the democratically elected governments of South America still do not have their militaries sufficiently subordinated to civilian authority,
In Latin America, they are seeing rapid losses of confidence in even new and hard-won democracies.
In the end, their hope lies in the education of their children,