Mr. Ayau's university had been a tremendous success. Imagine: a genuine

university, teaching everything from literature to engineering to biology, but teaching also the ideas of a free society--and all this in a country that has known very little of such a society. Mr. Ayau's "radical perspective" involves offering these ideas to his countrymen and their neighbors. Not the fastest-moving show, but a helpful look at a region that North Americans tend to regard as the home of bananas, revolution, and corruption. MA: "The State Department's intromission throughout Latin America has been very harmful. They really don't like capitalism. They blame Latin America's backwardness on capitalism and we haven't really tried it."