Latin America’s candidate to head IMF speaks out

Agustín Carstens

What irony! Despite all their grandiose rhetoric about Latin American unity, Brazil, Argentina and Chile have not yet come out in support of Agustín Carstens, the Latin American candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.

Earlier this week, I asked Carstens, a Mexican, whether he is disappointed that the three South American countries have failed so far to support his candidacy to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief