"With a handful of notable exceptions, the tone and substance of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson鈥檚 recent swing through five Latin American and Caribbean countries made it almost hard to remember that he works for the Trump administration. Over the past year, the President鈥檚 public and private discourse, from the border wall to 鈥渟hithole鈥 countries, has poisoned U.S.-Latin American relations and caused U.S. standing in the region to plummet. So anything resembling normal and even informed diplomacy was a welcome departure..." Download the PDF to read the full article "Tillerson's Trip to Latin America: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Originally published in Latin Trade and used with permission.
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Cynthia J. Arnson
Distinguished Fellow and Former Director, Latin America Program
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