Three Paths to America
Latin American governments are all watching the same news about Bush’s growing trials and tribulations, but their responses to the looming transfer of power in the United States are very different. Unless the next US administration formulates a coherent regional policy, Latin America's ideologues and dreamers could marginalize its realists.
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President George W. Bush’s free-falling popularity, his loss of control over Congress, the nagging doubts about the economy, and most of all his discredited reputation as a result of the debacle in Iraq all magnify the characteristic weakness of lame-duck American presidents. But, while Latin American governments are all watching the same news about Bush’s growing trials and tribulations, their responses to the looming transfer of power in the United States are of three kinds.