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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The U.S. is going to be worried about Bolivia's connections with Cuba and Venezuela.
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That is a dream that has been shattered, evaporated.
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an economic liberal with a big heart. He has been our guide for 17 years and we expect him to continue making enormous contributions.
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It will have a tremendous symbolic value that the United States is interested in having relations with the first indigenous president of a very poor country.
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That didn't work very well for the administration of Fox. There is no question that Mexico was hoping for a lot more. It did not come away a winner from the United States over the past years.
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Nobody who sat across the negotiating table from the United States came out of the talks feeling they got a fair deal. And many feel they've been outright cheated.
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Years later, the US and Latin America are at the lowest point in their relationship since the Cold War.