For leftist leaders, NYC is world's soapbox

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

For leftist leaders, NYC is world's soapbox
For left-leaning Latin American leaders, the U.N. General Assembly in New York is an irresistible chance to burnish their international standing.
Posted on Sat, Sep. 29, 2007
BY PABLO BACHELET
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NEW YORK -- President Evo Morales played a soccer match with his fellow Bolivians, appeared on the Jon Stewart comedy show and addressed scores of admirers at a historic venue in New York.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, a U.S.-educated economist, talked to investment bankers wearing a dark suit with a shirt with indigenous markings and no collar or tie, while Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega took a withering blast at the U.S. ``empire.'

Morales, Correa and Ortega were among half a dozen left-wing Latin American presidents in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly, usually an occasion to discuss foreign policy priorities with other leaders.

But their activities within the United Nations and outside showed how Latin American leaders are using the New York stage to polish their international images, set a tone for their relations with Washington and send messages to audiences at home and abroad.



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/254539.html

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This story by Miami Herald's Pablo Bachelet, was also published with the headline: "Latin leftists used U.N. meeting to polish image"



Pablo Bachelet,is the author of a wildly flattering biography on one of the Venezuela
coup plotters, media mogul, "fishing buddy" of _{George H. W. Bush,} Gustavo Cisneros.

[Xipe Totec]

1. I didn't know Giuliani and Bush were leftists

Because they certainly do use NYC as a soapbox.

You never know what you're going to learn from the papers...

[ronnie624]

2. I didn't read your comment at the bottom of your post

until after I had read the article, but shortly into it, the bias was obvious - the inference of guilt by association, the ever present "anti-US" meme, the characterization of neoliberal trade policies as "hands off" and "free market" and of course, the lack of any real information about the situation in Latin America. Such is to be expected, I suppose, from the Miami Herald.

But such articles do offer a certain amount of instruction.

As always, thanks.