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Interview: Next U.S. gov't not to improve relations with Latin America, warns Argentine scholar
Source: Xinhua 2016-10-27 11:13:44
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- No matter who wins the presidential election slated for Nov. 8, the next U.S government will not improve relations with Latin America, an Argentine scholar on international relations has warned.
In an interview with Xinhua, Leandro Morgenfeld, professor of the University of Buenos Aires, said that neither Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would change the strategy of attacking a country that does not obey the orders of Washington. Both will try to encourage regional fragmentation and prevent the emergence of a more multipolar world.
"Trump has provoked a large wave of rejection during his xenophobic and anti-Latino rhetoric. Clinton would bring more continuity with Obama despite a more aggressive approach toward governments that do not submit to the orders of Washington."
According to Morgenfeld, Clinton said during her campaign that she opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but she actually pushed for the negotiations when she was the secretary of state.
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-10/27/c_135784433.htm
Eko
(7,281 posts)exactly what another government is going to do in the future, hopefully he gives out lottery numbers next.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)Scapegoat is also part of recent history
Zorro
(15,737 posts)The world is becoming more peaceful. It used to be way more violent. So, only an idiot would think what has happened in history will be the norm.
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)Not one of your finer moments, I'm afraid.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)Convenient bogeyman to mask own failings is all the rage in many Latin American country
In fact is seemingly responsible for everything, everywhere
emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)You are better than this, Judi.
emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 27, 2016, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
Take time to know your sources before you drag them into DU.
Knowing you I am sure it was an honest mistake to present PRC propaganda as a credible source.
Please check your sources next time. Especially if they are claiming there is not a dime's worth of difference between Trump and Hillary.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Obama is coming to the region to promote the Trans Pacific Partnership
By: Manuel Barrientos and Walter Isaía / Source: Agencia Paco Urondo / The Dawn News / March 8, 2016. Leandro Morgenfeld, Doctor in History, Buenos Aires University and CONICET researcher, argues that the agenda that the US president will raise during his visit to Argentina should be analysed with concern.
Very few times before has an American President in exercise visited Argentina. This is significant, because the five previous visits, meant changes in the relationship with our country. So, this is not just another trip, its not a merely diplomatic or symbolic gesture, says Leandro Morgenfeld, who is a historian and author of the books Neighbors in conflict. Argentina and the United States in the Pan American Conferences and Dangerous Relations: Argentina and the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to make an official visit to the country, in 1936. Then came Dwight Eisenhower (1960), George H. Bush (1990) and Bill Clinton (1997). George W. Bush was the last American President to visit Argentina, but this was not a bilateral meeting, because he came within the framework of the Summit of the Americas held in Mar del Plata in 2005.
In this interview with the Paco Urondo News Agency (APU) interview, Morgenfeld said that Barack Obama is coming to the region to promote the Trans Pacific Partnership (known as TPP), in a context that is now favorable to them now that Mauricio Macri is president. He also asks the people to carefully scrutinize the agreements that may be signed on Security issues, with the pretext of the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism.
APU: How should we read the implications of Obamas visit?
L.M.: Firstly, he comes to close the alliance with Mauricio Macri. He comes here to empower Macri and transform him -given Macris lack of personal attributes- into the new leader of the Latin American Right. SInce Lets change won the elections last year, the US has been trying to promote the conservative restoration in the whole continent. The US used Macri to attack Venezuela in the last Summit of the Mercosur in December and this, in addition to the result in Venezuelas elections, changed the climate of the international context. At the same time, the Brazilian right is attacking the government of Dilma Rousseff because it feels free to do so in this new, favorable context. And Evo Morales failed, by a narrow margin, to be enabled its own re-election. That is, the United States is aimed at repositioning and Macri is very useful, because historically, Argentina was always a very reluctant country to align with the US. But the government has already given ample signs that it wants to go back to what we all know as carnal relations with the US (a term that was born with Menems administration, in reference to the fact that, when it came in foreign relations, the US was figuratively fucking us).
APU: Why did Obama decide to include Argentina in the route of what originally was only a trip to Cuba?
L.M.: Although it may seem unbelievable for people here (who see Obama as the incarnation of the right), Obama is permanently criticized by right-wing sectors in his country, for being too soft. There are violently anti-Castro sectors that question Obamas policy of defrosting relations with Cuba and the fact that he will visit Havana while its still governed in the regime of the Castro brothers, as they call the revolution. Therefore, to achieve some internal balance, as he usually does, Obama decided to visit Argentina, the new ally, immediately after That compensates, in the internal agenda, for the unrest generated by his visit to Cuba. The tour also aims to capture the Latino vote, which will be key for Democrats to twist the arm of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in November this year. There is also another motivation to which we must pay close attention, because it was already mentioned by officials of the Argentine Chancellery: Obama comes to the region (and he will also visit to Peru later this year) to promote the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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http://www.thedawn-news.org/2016/03/14/argentina-obama-is-coming-to-the-region-to-promote-the-trans-pacific-partnership/