…in the context of Latin America’s failed economic reforms is a truly interesting comparison. After all, failed reforms in Latin America have left it at the mercy of increasingly hostile, unproductive, dead-end leftist leaders, while rule-of-law-loving Estonia has seen itself vault to nearly first-world status in just a few short revolutionary years.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady has her new Index of Economic Freedom out, with a discussion of Estonia’s “revolutionary reforms” (you think she reads Publius???) and of Latin America’s increasingly braked reforms, something worth considering as we watch Latin America slide ever further into the leftist vortex of no return. It’s a good discussion of why some revolutions succeed and why others fail. It’s here.