WSJ / D. Luhnow / Agustin Carstens Profile
Agustin Carstens, 53, heads Mexico's central bank and has held IMF keys posts...but is believed to be trailing France's FM Christine Lagarde...for the top IMF job.
While he says he has the support of 12 Latin American nations...that doesn't include the 2 biggies...Brasil and Argentina.
But there is support for him in the IMF..
An unnamed IMF staffer said many there would prefer Carstens over Lagarde... and fondly remember him as deputy.
"It's an increasingly technical world, and AgustÃn understands every issue backwards and forwards."
The Brasilians especially are said to be skeptical... because of his attendance at the Univ. of Chicago— the birthplace of Milton Friedman's right wing, free-market economics.
"I went to the University of Chicago, but it's not a religion," Carstens said.
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