Michael Shifter Latin Quotations

Much in the way Fidel Castro did for a half century, he said what a lot of Latin Americans would like to be able to say about the United States in a public forum, but don't and can't afford to.

There has been a sense that Latin America can take care of itself, but Washington needs to start repairing the tattered relations.

The way Robertson's declarations will play in Latin America is that Chavez is right and that the U.S. is out to get him.

At a moment when relations between the US and Latin America are at their lowest point since the end of the cold war, this fence proposal is viewed as a terrible affront.

Clearly in Latin America, things are not happening the way the United States would like to see them happen. And the question is: Will the US try to be more engaged and be supportive of the people who believe in the same thing as it does, or will it react to these trends as threats to the US, which could turn them into a self-fulfilling prophecy?