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Barack Obama: “Too often, U.S. policy toward the Americas in recent years has been negligent to our friends, ineffective with our…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
Too often, U.S. policy toward the Americas in recent years has been negligent to our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, and disinterested in the challenges that matter to peoples' lives throughout the region.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Critique of past U.S. policy towards Latin America.

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