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LINK Biden and Latin America - CounterPunch.org

"For those who dream of greater independence for Latin America, it’s not clear that Biden’s election is such good news. To be sure, Trump played a disastrous role in the region: imposing deadly economic sanctions on Venezuela, hardening the US embargo against Cuba, and throwing his support behind Brazil’s racist, anti-Indigenous far-right president, among other horrors. But many will remember all too well that the Obama-Biden era coincided with major reversals for left-leaning movements all over the hemisphere.

The Obama administration may have sought to normalize relations with Cuba’s socialist government, but it also helped to enable coups against left-leaning governments. It supported a neoliberal trade and investment agenda, promoted militarized drug and security programs, and provided unconditional support to right-wing governments with horrifying human rights records.

What will Biden do? Will he simply dust off and reapply the Obama administration’s playbook for Latin America, as many of his remarks and personnel choices seem to indicate? Will he hang on to some of Trump’s approaches toward the region, particularly those that have received bipartisan support? Or will he seek to draw lessons from the unfortunate outcome of many of the policies of both the Obama and the Trump administrations?"

WilliamCharles 8 Apr 5
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