Abstract
By associating the European regime with an ox, I intend not to insult but rather to celebrate its solid bourgeois virtues: the stolid, efficient application of energy and the consequently consistent production of effective decisions, all within the context of an orderly, stable, and prosperous community. The post-war West European setting did not invite, nor did it require, unpredictable improvisation or heroic challenges to the expectations and desires of governing elites. Latin America, by comparison, has been a feral jungle for most of the Inter-American regime's remarkable life. And although today most of the beasts have withdrawn to their lairs (when they are not off exercising their human right to visit Miami and shop at Gucci) passersby still see eyes gleaming angrily in the shadows and hear the tense scrape of claws across stony floors. When, in the second half of the 1970s, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Commission) began in earnest to test the limits of its authority-descending on countries, probing their viscera, and returning with graphic accounts of the stench-it appeared as a fabulous creature to
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