Results of Obama-Uribe Meeting

Uribe and Obama met on Monday, June 29, and Obama, once again, openly endorsed the bilateral trade agreement and congratulated Uribe on his administration´s “progress that has been made in human rights in Colombia and dealing with the killings of labor leaders there.”

The Obama administration´s public posture of support, however, was not accompanied by actions [...]

New Article About Uribe-Obama Meeting Up At World Politics Review

My new article “Uribe Gains Access, Loses Credibilty” was just posted at the World Politics Review:

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president last November signaled a defeat not only for his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, but also for the outgoing Bush administration’s strongest hemispheric ally, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.

When George W. Bush [...]

Obama Reaches Out At Summit Of The Americas

Despite entering the Fifth Summit of the Americas in an atmosphere ripe for confrontation, the weekend-long meeting turned out to be extraordinarily cordial. Relations between the United States and the Latin American left remain strained, but President Obama’s friendly (if brief) exchanges with Presidents Chávez, Morales, and Ortega indicate a change in the tenor of [...]