We heard Mr. Frankel's comments initially.
Countries in Latin America have progressed enormously from where they were. The situation with protectionism, military governments, the lack of protection of civil rights, adopting neo-liberal economic policies to try to reverse all that, and re-negotiating debt to put themselves back on their feet has obviously put them very much behind in the proper distribution of wealth and adequate control of the environment. They're working significantly towards those targets. It takes a lot of time to undo what was done over so many years.
So yes, in many instances the playing field is not very level on the competition we encounter on products from those countries. But I think globalization and the open market economy have moved towards equalizing that. When you have a country that says no, we're not going to buy a product from that country if there is not proper protection or adequate environmental concerns, then it forces that country to comply. We see the pressure that many countries in Latin America have had on that front.
But it's a slow process. Economies that had been recovering from many years of living on borrowed budgets and corrupt governments without democracy still have a long way to go. The distribution of wealth is very uneven. But things are moving. These are things that do not happen overnight. These are evolutions more than revolutions.