RIGA - As Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga dined with dignitaries, lobbied for NATO membership and stayed at the Waldorf Towers during last week's visit to the United States, her warm reception overseas provided little financial comfort for Latvians back home.The trip, with her entourage of six staff members, cost 18,448 lats ($31,800), according to her press office, though it said those numbers could change.That money spent on brokering foreign good will is unattainable for about 120,000 Latvians, more than half of them women, who cannot find work, according to the most recent statis...
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