Barack Obama actually said...

"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 throug..."

"administration policy toward the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what is good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States."

"The current United States-Brazil relationship provides a foundation for a deeper, more comprehensive partnership between our two countries."

"It makes both moral and strategic sense to lift the restrictions on family visits and family cash remittances to Cuba."