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OBAMA'S VISIT TO LATIN AMERICA: A VIEW FROM THE SOUTH

Prompted by President Obama’s March 2011 visit to Latin America, the Dialogue is pleased to offer these reflections prepared by Sergio Bitar. A long-time member and currently visiting senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, Bitar served as senator as well as minister of energy and mines, education, and public works in three separate administrations in Chile. His sophisticated and wide-ranging perspective about the present moment and opportunity for relations between the United States and Latin America merits public dissemination and spirited discussion. MORE 

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The program on US Foreign Policy explores the hemispheric implications of US policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the Congressional Members Working Group dinner series and other events, the Dialogue connects regional leaders to the US policy community in Washington and provides an open forum for exchange. Initiatives like the Drug Policy Program offer a more focused environment in which to build hemispheric consensus on divisive policy challenges. Dialogue experts also spark new conversations with timely and incisive foreign policy analysis.

STAFF

Michael Shifter, President
Peter Hakim, President Emeritus
Joan Caivano, Deputy to the President/Director Special Projects
Kim Covington, Program Assistant
Rachel Schwartz, Program Assistant

For more information, please contact Kim Covington at kcovington@thedialogue.org or (202) 463-2938.

ARTICLES & OP-EDS 

• Military Aid is Unattractive, but Unavoidable, Michael Shifter, New York Times, May 8, 2012 (Room for Debate series Should US Troops Fight the War on Drugs?)
• Washington ha perdido influencia, interview with Michael Shifter, El Comercio, April 14, 2012.
• Voz de América Latina se escucha más fuerte en el mundo, interview with Michael Shifter, April 13, 2012.
• La hora de EE.UU en Afganistán terminó, Michael Shifter, El Colombiano, March 27, 2012. (English)
• Mitt Romney, favorito pero comprometido, Michael Shifter, El Colombiano, March 13, 2012. (English)
• Florida define futuro republicano, Michael Shifter, El Colombiano, January 31, 2012 (English).
• The Debate the GOP Didn't Have in Florida, Michael Shifter, Foreign Policy, January 30, 2012.
• Caracas or Bust: Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest tour of Latin America a waste of time? Michael Shifter, Foreign Policy, January 9, 2012.
• ¿Son exagerados los temores de EE.UU. a los lazos entre Irán y América Latina? Michael Shifter, Infolatam, January 9, 2012.
• The United States and Latin America: The Neighborhood has Changed, Peter Hakim, The International Spectator, December, 2011.
• Obama: Causas y azares, Michael Shifter, Revista Ideele, December 20, 2011 (English).
• The Colombia and Panama Free Trade Deals: New Momentum for US-Latin American Relations?, Peter Hakim, Infolatam, October 13, 2011.

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IN THE PRESS

• El Tratado de Libre Comercio con EEUU puede abrirle otras puertas a Colombia, Michael Shifter in AFP, May 14, 2012.
• America's Decline - myth or reality?, Reuters, April 20, 2012.
• Beyond the Secret Service Scandal: Why the Americas Summits Matter, TIME, April 16, 2012.
• The United States Needs America More Than Ever, Huffington Post, April 15, 2012.
• The real backyard, The Economist, April 14, 2012.
• Obama Keeps Eye on U.S. Politics at Summit, Bloomberg Businessweek, April 13, 2012.
  
• ¿Cómo llegan las relaciones de Washington con la región?, El Espectador, April 11, 2012.
• Cuba, inmigración y drogas, temas clave entre EE. UU.y Latinoamérica, El Tiempo, April 11, 2012.
• U.S., Latin America Growing More Distant, Warns Think Tank, IPS, April 11, 2012.
• EEUU: Obama "alentará" diálogo en Cumbre sobre compromiso democrático, El Economista, April 11, 2012.
• Los retos de EE. UU. frente a la región en la Cumbre de las Américas, El Tiempo, April 11, 2012.
  
• OEA.- Obama deberá encarar a una América Latina desilusionada por no haber relanzado las relaciones con la región, Margaret Myers in Europress, April 10, 2012.
• Expertos: EEUU da poca información de deportados a A. Central, Michael Shifter in El Nuevo Herald, April 9, 2012.
• Obama está lejos de América Latina, Michael Shifter in La Opinión, April 5, 2012.
• US drug war under scrutiny during Biden visit to Honduras, Michael Shifter in Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 2012.
• US remains opposed to drug legalization, Biden tells region, Michael Shifter in New York Times, March 5, 2012.
• Biden visits Mexico, Honduras amid calls to debate drug strategy, Michael Shifter in Bloomberg, March 5, 2012.
• How serious are threats of Iran, Hezbollah?, Michael Shifter in The Nicaragua Dispatch, February 7, 2012.
• Republicanos arrecian críticas contra los Castro y Chávez, Michael Shifter in El Universal, February 5, 2011.
• Amenaza Irán-Alba ¿bluf o realidad?, Michael Shifter in La Prensa, February 4, 2012.
• Lawmakers, "Experts" Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America, Michael Shifter in Inter-Press Service, February 3, 2012.

EVENTS

• Report release: Remaking the Relationship, April 11, 2012.
  
• A Conversation with Bill Richardson, October 6, 2011.
• A Discussion on Obama's New Deportations Policy and the Future of Immigration, September 21, 2011.
• What's next for U.S.-Latin America Relations?: A Discussion of President Obama's Trip, March 24, 2011.
• The United States and Cuba: Intimate Enemies, March 17, 2011.
• A Conversation with U.S. Heads of Mission to the Andean Region, February 1, 2011.
• The Obama Administration and Defense Diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere, January 24, 2011.
• The Next Step in the U.S.-Colombia Relationship, June 30, 2009.
• Managing the U.S.-Mexico Relationship, June 23, 2009.
• Press Roundtable: Obama's First 100 Days, May 7, 2009.
• The U.S. and Cuba: Counternarcotics Partners?, February 27, 2009.  
• What to Expect From the Obama Administration, Dcember 10, 2008.

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INTERVIEWS

• Iranian President Ahmadinejad Visits Latin America Seeking to Reinforce Alliances, Michael Shifter, BBC, January 10, 2012.
• Iranian President on Four-Nation Tour of Latin America, Michael Shifter, Voice of America, January 9, 2012.
• En Cuba la Iglesia puede ser un actor en cualquier cambio, Interview with Michael Shifter, La Prensa Gráfica, January 8, 2012.
• Expectativas para el 2012, Interview with Michael Shifter, CNNE, January 3, 2011.
• Una gira con pocas expectativas, Interview with Peter Hakim, Voice of America, March 19, 2011.
• Obama vai elogiar Brasil, mas só ficará nas palavras, Interview with Peter Hakim, R7, March 19, 2011.
• Perú vive una paradoja, con altos niveles de crecimiento y descontento, Interview with Michael Shifter, El Pais, April 15, 2011.

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