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Article: Trouble in the "backyard"; Condoleezza Rice in Latin America.(The United States and Latin America)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2005
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Rice and Lula: wary allies
Just stop calling it that
AFTER four years in which South Americans complained of neglect by the United States, George Bush is paying attention. He sent his defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to the region in March. Condoleezza Rice, the new secretary of state, set off on a four-nation tour this week. Mr Bush himself is expected in Argentina and Brazil in November. Why the sudden interest? Because things are going badly.
The United States' long-standing project for the region, free trade among the hemisphere's 34 democracies, is stuck. Mr Bush's newer idea of spreading democracy everywhere could suffer reversals in ...