[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 1, 2003 - Brothers intent on taking control of Peru*** Ecuador's election last November of President Lucio Gutierrez, who directed a coup in 2000, and the apparent success of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, himself a former coup leader, have encouraged the Humala movement, political observers say. "The Humalas follow in the line of Chavez and Gutierrez," said Boris Romero, editor of Sintesis, a financial daily. "They have a left-wing nationalistic message that could work. Ollanta is certainly someone to watch in the 2006 elections."***

[tkathy]

Why does Latin America never seem to get it together?

[backhoe]

-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--

[livius]

I think certain people in the current Administration are aware of the importance of Latin America, but that doesn't include many in Congress, unfortunately.

Also, Democrats are too busy worshipping Fidel, and think that everything is just peachy in Latin America. From the Dem point of view, the more LA communists like Chavez and Lula, the better. As far as they're concerned, there is no Latin American problem, and since most US Hispanics are Democrats and seem to accept this opinion, there is little pressure on the politicians to change.

One thing that would make a difference in US policy is to have a greater number of US Hispanic Republicans, although unfortunately the Republicans don't seem to have figured out how to achieve this.

[Semper Paratus]

6 months ago the rap was that the Bush Administration was ignoring the palestinian issue.
When the President goes to Latin America will hear about the neglect of the South Pacific.

[MEG33]

What do you want the US to do?

[FITZ]

There is a lot of wealth in Latin America ---it would make a lot of sense for us to strongly push for those countries to make changes needed that allow them to have a strong middle class ---middle class people can buy more products. Plus we need to pay attention since we share a long border with a Latin American country and it's problems obviously are spilling over.