On the 11th Dec, the International Policy Network held a meeting, ‘Elections in Latin America – the way forward’, featuring Paulo Uebel, President of the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais, Brazil. The meeting gave an insight into the current unease felt by proponents of neoliberalism in Latin America and elsewhere, following a year in which left-wing governments have swept to power in a number of Latin American countries. Such discomfort is perhaps not unfounded given that many of these leaders were elected on the basis of their anti-neoliberal rhetoric and promises to implement radical economic and social reform. How investors and corporate interests should respond to this threat and find ‘the way forward’ was the central theme of the discussion.   more »