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Under Spanish rule, land was taken from the Maya and turned over to tobacco and sugarcane plantations, and the once-proud Indians were reduced to farm laborers.
After all, in popular mythology, KKR is thought of as the firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout and left America's once-proud corporations either struggling under mountains of junk-bond-financed debt or stripped of their most valuable jewels.
A WSJ article echoes the conventional wisdom taking hold this week: The piece argues that the current fiscal turmoil in Asia signals the victory of the liberal American economy over the once-proud, authoritarian Asian system.