Many presidents can take pride in respectable economic growth without hyper-inflation.
Talk to global strategists and fund managers, and you will be told that Latin America's stock markets are among the more attractive this year. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who took office prior to the peso turmoil, declines to give outright prescriptions, preferring to simply recount his country experiences. You cannot fool around, not even for a few weeks. Those are words of wisdom that Thailand and South Korea seem to have taken to heart. But unhappily for Indonesia, its leaders are only now beginning to do the same.