But he notes that there has been an economic renaissance in the region that began in the late 1980s, a structural change driven by democratization and free trade policies. This is very different from the oil and mineral development of the past.
但是他認為，中南美洲自八○年代末的經濟復甦，是政治民主化、貿易自由化所引發的結構性改變，與過去突如其來的挖到油礦、挖到鐵礦不同。