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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