Our Latin Conundrum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010100387.html
By Jackson Diehl
Monday, January 2, 2006; Page A13
Here's a sad but safe new year's prediction: U.S. relations with Latin
America, which plunged to their lowest point in decades in 2005, will
get still worse in 2006.
The year ended with a string of reverses. In a regional summit in Mar
del Plata, Argentina, in November, President Bush was jeered by
demonstrators and taunted by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who aspires to
make Latin America anti-American and anti-democratic. He was seconded
by Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, who in the past few weeks has moved
from the hemisphere's camp of moderate democratic leftists toward
Chavez's "revolutionary" embrace.
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