Peter Hakim
Peter Hakim
Peter Hakimis president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank on Western Hemisphere affairs. He served as president of the Dialogue from 1993 to 2010...
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This is a man who won 54 or 55 percent of the vote, one of the strongest electoral victories in Latin America in the last 11 years. If the U.S. is prepared to support a democratically elected government that does not agree with its policies, this is an opportunity.
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All of a sudden, Latin America is saying that the U.S. is not playing by the same rules as everyone else and this provokes an underlying distrust of the U.S..
politics
This is much more about politics than economics.