We have abdicated our leadership role in that region and created a vacuum of leadership, and for that reason we have seen now recently how countries even like China have stepped in to plug that leadership gap that we have left unattended for far too long.
Espaillat critiques U.S. withdrawal from leadership in Latin America, allowing other nations to fill the gap.
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