Al Giordano offers up a great vetting of Barack Obama's Latin Americanpolicy speech in a report with Narco News. I suggest you take a look. The entirety of the article is not positive, as Giordano takes exception with much of what Obama says, but it offers some interesting insight into Latin American policy, which I expect to play a bigger role in the 2008 cycle, than in previous cycles. Cuba, especially, will be a hot topic of discussion, as Obama's Cuban policy deviates from that of previous Presidents, as well as his Republican opponent.
Mostly unnoticed by the US news media, a generational rift has percolated among Cuban-Americans that Obama was able to hear and speak to before his elder rivals for the US presidency were apparently aware of it. Members of the younger generations have concluded – along with most other Americans – that the US embargo on Cuba is an utterly stupid policy, in part because it is particularly restrictive upon them: Under current law, they’re prohibited from visiting their relatives on the island, and from sending money to them. Obama’s call to end that prohibition – in which he was opposed first by his main Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton and now by his Republican opponent McCain – has struck deep resonance in that community in South Florida, and provoked the beginnings of an abandonment of its most reactionary and harmful leaders by younger generations of Cuban-Americans.
It's a great article and definately recommended reading.
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