Peter Hakim America Quotations

Years later, the US and Latin America are at the lowest point in their relationship since the Cold War.

Washington's tattered relations with Latin America have mainly translated into a series of lost opportunities for both sides. The US could end up paying a stiff price for the region's economic reversals and unsettled politics ... Washington can do better.

Even in countries that have thrown out presidents, almost every one of them has gone back to elections as the only way to choose new leadership. There's just no other way to do that now. That makes Latin America different.

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.

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..