1.   Argentina, the last of the four to suffer a banking crisis, managed to avoid the wrenching changes that afflicted its fellow Latin nations.

2.   As a result, Latin nations accelerated economic reforms and a move toward privatization, he said.

3.   Bolivia, bordering more countries than any other Latin nation, appeared ideal for the first stage of a continent-wide revolution.

4.   He is in Costa Rica today, where he will meet with Central American leaders to promote his plan for opening more Latin nations to free trade.

5.   Higher U.S. rates would make it harder for Latin nations to attract foreign capital.

6.   It also would apply to other Latin nations from which immigrants could enter the United States via Mexico, he said.

7.   Others, however, are fearful that denying certification to Colombia would lead the troubled Latin nation further into the morass of drug-trafficker subterfuge.

8.   Other Latin nations have found profit in protecting the environment.

9.   President Clinton on Wednesday extolled the economic payoffs awaiting Latin nations that extend state-paid higher education to impoverished students.

10.   The Mexican economy, staggering under the biggest balance-of-payments deficit of any large Latin nation, is partly a victim of global conditions.