There are very strong winds of change blowing through the continent of Latin America and they seem to be in somewhat of a left-ward direction.

I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going on at the same time, all of which aren't very good. We've got the Japanese yen going to eight-year lows, we've got talk about devaluation in China, we've got Hong Kong coming under attack and we've got a number of other Asian economies just showing incredible signs of weakness.

There's just a huge amount of money sloshing around looking for a place to go.

My expectation is that we will see countries lapsing back to some sort of controls on trade, on capital, which isn't going to be too healthy for the global economy.

We are going to change Bolivia, we are going to change Latin America.

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.