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Carin Zissis
March 24, 2011
http://www.as-coa.org/articles/3153/Assessing_Obamas_Latin_American_Tour/
U.S. President Barack Obama used the tour to hold up Latin America as an example of successful democratic transition, even if the Libyan crisis cast a long shadow over his trip to Central and South America. “It is a lesson and a hope worth bearing in mind in the context of recent uprisings—some accompanied by regime change, others by violent military standoff—in the Middle East and North Africa,” writes Nina Agrawal for the AQ blog in coverage of Obama’s Santiago speech about U.S.-Latin American ties. The president’s address in Chile, as well his trip overall, also sought to set a new tone in terms of how Washington relates to the region. Maximiliano Raide and Pablo González, co-founders of Jóvenes Líderes Latinoaméricana, note that Obama’s visit marked 50 years since John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress accompanied with pledges of development aid. “But these times are very different,” writes Raide and González. “The strained fiscal situation of the United States does not leave much room for generosity, at the same time that the share of trade with Latin America is declining in favor of Asia.”
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