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Secretary of State Clinton Does Latin America

Secretary of State Clinton Does Latin America
• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute

• Why Guatemala?


• Brazil phase is rough


• Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, on this try, do not seem to perceive that it is a changed world in terms of inter-American relations and that traditional concepts of pan-Americanism may be crumbling.

On March 1, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarked on her five-day tour of Latin America. The trip came in the wake of immensely destructive earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, the legacy of an ousted constitutionally-elected president in Honduras, the threats raised by an Iran-Brazil nuclear partnership, and the first female president being elected in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, until these recent natural disasters grabbed the headlines, the United States’ presence in Latin American affairs had been reduced to a minor distraction by the Iraq war.
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This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associates Evgenij Haperskij and Kaycie Rupp

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