Tuesday, April 5, 2011

LATIN AMERICA - Obama has stolen the spotlight

For his first official tour of the Latin American continent, the U.S. president has visited a favela in Rio de Janeiro, recalled of Orfeu Negro, quoted the Communist poet Pablo Neruda, lit a candle on the tomb of Archbishop Romero (Salvadoran Archbishop assassinated in 1980 by a group of extreme right), spoke with Mauricio Funes, a leftist president, elected under the banner of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMLN ex-guerrillas).

He had also planned to visit Mayan ruins, but this symbolic image was deleted from the agenda and shortened the journey of several hours due to Libyan news. The tour aimed to resolder the relationship between southern and northern continent had generated much hope, but his record is "ambiguous," said Página 12.

In Brazil, the passage of the first U.S. black president, highly publicized, was called "historic" by O Globo, while Folha de Sao Paulo celebrated "the sweet music represents for the Brazilian leaders recognizing the leadership of the giant continent. " However, the Government has not hesitated Roussef just hours after the departure of the U.S.

delegation to issue a statement calling "at the end of attacks in Libya," said Público thereby demonstrating the convergence of diplomatic BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). In Chile, the speech for the Americas, much anticipated, in which Bush has advocated an "equal marriage" was not as he expected applause, especially when he uttered the words that in Spanish 'They wanted highly symbolic "we are all Americans," reported El Pais.

In the Chilean press, many opposition voices who regretted that no apology had been imposed for past mistakes of American diplomacy, those that led to the emergence and maintenance of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). Christian and Democratic Senator Jorge Pizarro said the daily La Nación that "it is a high profile visit.

Bbeaucoup ado about not much and unfortunately it has not addressed the themes that we expected." The Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, in an article entitled Obama and the suffering of Chile published in El Paísavait called the U.S. president to meditate on the symbolic tomb of Salvador Allende.

It has not been heard. In El Salvador, Obama's visit helped to "break the old schematics anti-imperialist," the online daily El Faro, which states that "the most significant moment of this visit was the tribute to Monsignor Romero symbol of impunity in this polarized nation of Latin America.

" The President's tour of Latin American long-planned was supposed to show the new U.S. willingness to reengage in this region neglected under the Bush years. But the news Jamahiriya decided otherwise, making inaudible most anticipated announcements on security, economy, immigration ...

while he did not comment on more sensitive topics like the embargo against Cuba.

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