Con su habitual lucidez y una prosa pulida y potente, el periodista latinoamericano más influyente de la actualidad ofrece aquà un reportaje fascinante que trasciende las ideologÃas, rompe con el pensamiento polÃticamente correcto del momento y marca un rumbo sorprendentemente optimista sobre el futuro latinoamericano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Why can’t Latin America ever get ahead, when the so-called “emerging countries†seem to be able to do it at full speed? This book searches for clues. With his unmistakable style—a mix of travel reports, interviews with prominent political leaders, reflections, and sense of humor—Oppenheimer presents his vision about the world in the 21st century: which Latin American countries have the possibility to progress and which are doomed to fail in the new international context, marked by the rise of China as the world’s second greatest power.