John Baeyens

The danger of a resounding victory for Mr Lula da Silva, in the view of those who support economic orthodoxy, is that much-needed reform would be even less likely, leaving Brazil with little chance of growing more quickly than the average of 2.5 per cent

“We wanted to have an operation in Latin America for purposes of risk mitigation and geographical diversity,” said the 40-year-old Arias, who worked for Costa Rica’s investment promotion agency before being snatched up by Intel in December 1996. “After