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Article: business forum; GLOBAL EXECUTIVE; Ignoring Latin America will exact a price; If the United States doesn't give its neighbors to the south the respect that they're due, Venezuela, Russia and China will be happy to fill the void.(BUSINESS INSIDER)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 26, 2007
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Byline: Ronald M. Bosrock
Miami, Fla. -- President Bush's five-country tour of Latin America this month underscores the cycle of benign neglect that has characterized relations between the United States and our neighbors to the south. It goes this way: The United States finds itself heavily engaged somewhere in the world while the rest of the Western Hemisphere is neglected.
Then political events, often fueled by poor economic conditions, cause Latin American countries to start drifting toward radical far-left or far-right changes. During the Kennedy administration the Cold War focused the attention of NATO countries along the east-west border with the Soviet bloc. In ...