I'll confess that I haven't been following the details of the Summit of the Americas, now underway in Mar De Plata, Argentina. I also haven't figured out why economic growth and higher standards of living stubbornly refuse to arrive in most Latin American countries, despite their abundance of resources and proximity to the largest market in the world.
But I'd be pretty surprised if Chavez, Maradona, Esquivel, or these fellows pictured above had a better plan for starting the process than ratifying the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
Read all about this cast of characters here.