Kissinger Defends South America Policies
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, defending his approach to Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s, said Tuesday he purposely steered clear of "personal attacks" when it came to condemning human rights abuses.
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President Bush has spent the past six days in Central and South America pushing his view that what he calls free trade is the solution for millions who live in poverty south of our border.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales and opposition governors struggled to overcome their bitter differences at talks early on Tuesday but he said that South America's poorest nation should stay one country.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The world's chief climate scientist yesterday disputed the US government's contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to slow the pace of global warming.
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He talked of grinding poverty and called it "a scandal" that democracy and capitalism have not delivered more to Latin Americans. The working poor need change, he declared. He invoked Simon Bolivar, the "great liberator," and vowed to "complete the revolution" and bring true "social justice" to the region...
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President Bush's trip to sunny Latin America was no day at the beach. He was buffeted by complaints about immigration laws, ethanol tariffs, the Iraq war and accusations that the United States was ignoring its southern neighbors.
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ANCHORENA PARK, Uruguay  - The United States is prepared to reduce agricultural subsidies but wants to ensure market access for goods, President George W. Bush said on Saturday during a tour of Latin America.
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SAN SALVADOR  - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began in El Salvador a week-long tour of Latin America, including Nicaragua, Panama and Ecuador, to thank the region for its support of the US-led effort in Iraq and the fight against international
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GUATEMALA CITY, March 12 -- President Bush defended a recent surge of deportations that have inflamed passions here in Latin America, but vowed Monday to redouble efforts to overhaul immigration laws and called on the Senate to pass comprehensive legislation by summer.
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Argentina's president accuses rich nations of double standards in policies on world debt and climate change.
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Britain's Prince Andrew on Wednesday defended comments he made suggesting the United States might have been better off had its leaders learned from the British experience with colonialism before invading Iraq.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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Bolivian president Evo Morales brandished a coca leaf on the floor of the United Nations Tuesday in a passionate rebuke of U.S. criticisms of the South American nation's anti-drug policies.
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CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez of Venezuela has long pledged to buck Washington-backed economic policies in Latin America. Now, two months after winning reelection and consolidating his hold on the country with new powers to rule by decree, he is strengthening economic ties in the region in a bid to limit U.S. influence....
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BUENOS AIRES, March 9 -- Argentina provided the microphone, the stadium and thousands of fired-up spectators in the mood to hear some thunderous, fist-pumping, anti-American sloganeering. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez took care of the rest.
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Bush is about to embark on a grand tour of Latin America, hoping to finally score the sort of foreign-policy victory that's eluded him elsewhere. No matter what he offers, however, it's likely too little, too late.
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The president will introduce plans to cut poverty and create jobs in Latin America, where there has been a growing anti-U.S. trend in regional politics.