Quoted
"Passengers on Latin American carriers, regardless of travel class, expect chicken cordon bleu and cabernet, not pretzels and Dr. Pepper."
Jerry Haar, associate dean and professor at the College of Business Administration at Florida International University, as quoted by Latin America Advisor, June 2008
"Talent is scarce in Latin America"
Carlos Garcia, head of Novartis Latin America, in Latin Business Chronicle, June 16, 2008
"The poor are not poor just because others are rich"
Manuel Ayau, founder of Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, as quoted by Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2008
"It looks increasingly as though the real reason Democratic leaders won't vote on the Colombia deal is that they don't want to alienate their organized-labor backers during an election year."
Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2008
"The political cowardice the Democrats are showing with regard to the U.S.-Colombia FTA is truly astonishing"
National Review editorial, May 20, 2008
"There's going to be a flood of money coming into the market."
Marcio Mello Silva Baptiste of law firm TozziniFreire on Brazil getting investment grade from S&P, as quoted by Globe & Mail, May 5, 2008
"We feel these guys are nothing but con men"
Chevron spokesman Don Campbell on the Ecuadorian winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, as quoted by AP, April 14, 2008
"Speaker Pelosi got her 3:00 a.m. call and said, ‘I’m not answering it.”"
John Walters, US Director National Drug Control Policy, April 10, 2008, on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's efforts to block a vote on the Colombia-US free trade agreement
"As the government failed to control inflation, it's trying to control the indexes"
Marcos Ochoa, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, on Argentina's failed inflation fight, as quoted by Bloomberg, April 10, 2008
"Su Casa es Mi Casa"
Craig Kelly, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, describing populism in Latin America, at an AACCLA luncheon, Coral Gables, USA, January 24, 2008
"A trip to Madrid? A thousand euros. Another to Barcelona? 1,500 euros. Shutting up Chavez? Priceless. "
Popular Venezuelan joke, referring to recent request by the Spanish king for Venezuelan president Juan Carlos to shut up, as quoted by El Pais, Spain, November 18, 2007
