A conversation about President Obama's trip to Mexico & Trinidad

with Andrés Oppenheimer, Tracy Wilkinson and Shannon O'Neil
in Current Affairs
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A conversation about President Obama's trip to Mexico & Trinidad with Shannon O'Neil of Council on Foreign Relations, Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald via Port of Spain and Tracy Wilkinson of the LA Times via Mexico City

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    1. tartufe  04/21/2009 06:16 PM Report

      For a revealing read on the Americas and more, try: "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," by John Perkins.

    2. Christopher  04/21/2009 03:41 AM Report

      I don't think that Latin America will benefit from any American involvment. The region is doing fine. There is left right and center. The best the US can do is not intervene! Stay out. Just stay away. The region has never been as vibrant with no credit to the the US because all their attention has been in the Middle East. I have not seen Chavez adversely affect or impede domocracy in the region. He isn'y my first choice but he is Venezuela's choice and we have to live with it (just like we lived with George Bush...)

    3. REMant  04/21/2009 02:57 AM Report

      Obama isn't all-white, that should no doubt appeal to many South Americans. Now if he could only inspire some of them to actually achieve something. These are no longer really poor countries, and if needed technology is made available, they should be able to as Brazil is beginning to. If we do not do that, we can expect to be fighting more of them here one of these days than we will Arabs. I'd say this is more important than Pakistan. Nor are Cuba and Venezuela the primary problem areas, indeed they are among the least significant, because they already have the right attitude, IMHO, and just need the means. And it is wrong to think that a reinstitution of business as usual will help in the long-run, because to a large extent what we've been doing is making them poorer, not richer. As in the US, itself, the task is to reconstruct society not reinflate asset bubbles.

    4. tartufe  04/20/2009 01:40 PM Report

      The three major components of the border drug war are demand and weapons and suppliers.

      Well guess who supplies two out of three. Bill Moyers had a great segment on the discarded of our society that provide the demand.

      The arms dealers, a part of the M-I oligarchy and a wet dream of the NRA, gleefully supply the weapons.

      Like so much of our inbred arrogance, it generates natural outcomes that we inexplicably become indignant about.

      Drug czar on the border? How about in our inner cities? Jobs. Even CCC type. Something to throw off the 'discarded' aura