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It's taken far too long for musicians - and through them, the world's audiences - to recognize the substantial creative credentials of the late Brazilian composer Moacir Santos. Despite valiant efforts by Mario Adnet and Zé Nogueira, pioneers in rescuing Santos's music from obscurity, all his music is underrepresented in current recording catalogs. 
It appears that the presidential candidates for the second round of elections in 2010 have already been chosen, as much by the media as by the research institutes. Their discourses focus upon a similar subject: the acceleration of the economy. 
Brazilian senator Marina Silva, from Acre state's Workers Party (PT) was featured on major newspapers across the country in a recent weekend as DataFolha polling released its latest study showing the senator had only 3% of the presidential votes. 
For any political scientist, economist and historian who may not be entirely familiarized with the dynamics of Latin America's historical legacy and some of the recent issues staining the rosy pictures of cooperation, friendship, and consensus often publicized in the area's main capitals, it would have appeared that the region could be on the brink of reaching a respectful level of maturity and might even have resolved some serious issues, challenges and conflicts which have plagued many of its countries for nearly two centuries of self-determination. 
A set of documents published by George Washington University's National Security Archive on August 16, 2009, contains fresh and vivid evidence of United States actions and attitudes towards Latin America in the early 1970s.