As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.