[IP] How the US 'lost' Latin America

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk>
Date: April 6, 2006 12:46:38 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: How the US 'lost' Latin America

Dave:

From the BBC, for IP if you wish.

Cheers

Brian


> Analysis: How the US 'lost' Latin America
> As the BBC begins a special series on Latin America, Newsnight  
> presenter Gavin Esler gives his view on the region's leftward trend  
> and its changing relationship with the US.
>
> There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble.
>
> Peru's Ollanta Humala talks of the evils of "the neo-liberal model"
> It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of  
> our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
>
> While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and  
> Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries  
> of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
>
> Virtually anyone paying attention to events in Venezuela and  
> Nicaragua in the north to Peru and Bolivia further south, plus in  
> different ways Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, comes to the same  
> conclusion: there is a wave of profound anti-American feeling  
> stretching from the Texas border to the Antarctic.
>
> And almost everyone believes it will get worse.
> . . .


Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4861320.stm


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