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Jim Shultz

Jim Shultz is executive director of The Democracy Center, based in Bolivia and California. He has trained citizen advocates on five continents, and writes frequently on global democracy issues. He is author of The Democracy Owners' Manual: a practical guide to changing the world (Rutgers University Press, 2003)

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America's promise

Can the United States see its Latin American neighbours as equals not vassals? In the eighth of our Letters to Americans series, the Bolivian labour and anti-privatisation organiser Oscar Olivera writes to Jim Schultz, author of The Democracy Owners' Manual.