As part of our coverage of the events surrounding the Fifth Summit of the Americas, WORLDMEETS.US offers this unforgiving walk through the reality of Latin America from a Russian perspective.
For Gazeta of Russia, Yevgeniy Trifonov writes in part:
“For Latin Americans, China, Europe and Japan, even all together, can’t substitute for the United States. Cuba is a perfect example of this: free trade with the entire rest of the world isn’t capable of compensating Havana for the U.S. embargo, and the economy of “Freedom island” has been in continual decline for the past 50 years.”
“The current American elite say to Latin America, ‘We love everyone, all is forgiven, and we will no longer impose on anyone.’ Translated into simple language, this means the following: ‘We are deathly tired of lecturing you and caring about democracy and human rights in your countries. You will come back to us yourselves (or crawl back, if repentance is belated).'”
By Yevgeniy Trifonov
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
April 15, 2009
Russia – Gazeta – Original Article (Russian)
Fidel Castro was right and Hugo Chavez was wrong. The arrival of Barack Obama to the White House really has opened a new era in U.S. relations with its southern neighbors. It seems the current American elite consider that the cost of caring about democracy and human rights in Latin America is unreasonably high.
The fact that American policy toward Latin America will undergo radical changes was clearly expressed by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. During a conversation with the Chile President Michelle Bachelet, Biden said, ” The time of the United States dictating unilaterally, the time where we only talk and don’t listen – is over. We very much … want a conversation. We very much want a partnership.”
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