Where Art Thou Latin America
I’m glad that the entirety of tonight’s foreign debate led to one single mention of a Latin American nation. Cuba of course. I heard Fidel Castro may have risen off his death bed to say something (probably more or less accurate) about American imperialism sometime in the last year, no doubt worthy of a good pander.
Otherwise, nothing.
But hey, that’s OK. Latin America is far away from the United States, so who really cares.
You missed, the “Huge economy, lots of opportunity for trade [and outsourcing] there instead of with China,” line from Romney?
“By the way aren’t teachers’ unions the worst?”
No, seriously, that was all one train of thought. Weirdest moment.
No, they have a very common theme.
He was obviously thinking “How can I get richer off the backs of the poor?” and just blurted out all of his suggestions.
Actually it was his five-point plan if I recall correctly…so yes it was that
Yeah – no need to mention the world’s sixth-largest economy and increasing regional power Brazil. Or Mexico, with its change in presidents this year and ongoing uncertainty over the drug war. Or the US’s role in the OAS, IACHR, and other hemispheric groups. Or etc. etc. etc.
Nor did they mention Australia. Great place, good, stable economy. How do they do it over there? It’s like an entire continent!
Hell, why haven’t we invaded that place? Not to mention Canada!
If we take the NHL offices in Toronto on the first day, the Canadians will greet us a liberators.
You burn down Toronto, we burn down Washington. That’s what happened in the war of 1812, and the resulting goodwill has made our two nations friends ever since.
Some accounts, to be fair, has Hugo Chavez being mentioned at one point.
This is true. Chavez was lumped in with Kim Jong-Il on the list of All-Time Evildoers to whom Obama wanted to bow and scrape.
God help us all. Romney’s concept of world affairs makes Reagan look like a paragon of sophistication and nuance.
Yes, I caught the reference first from a tweet from Chris Hayes ridiculing it.
Only the moderator mentioned Cuba. Though Romney did mention Castro and Chavez in the context of the apology tour.
Also missing-in-action: Japan, Europe, India.
But at least they talked about the middle east a lot!
Latin America was mentioned a lot in one of Mitt Romney’s exasperated rambling responses. Apparently trade with Latin America is the key to something or other. Probably a shout out to the Central American families that were the initial investors in Bain Capital. They also dabbled in death squads.
All the best small businesses require death squads early on. It’s capitalism at its finest.
To Americans foreign policy means “What to do about the ragheads & Israel?”
Alas, also to 98% of our non-Spanish-language news media.
Don’t forget provoking fake tension with China and Russia
Latin America is far away from the United States
“¡Pobre México! ¡Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos!”–Pofirio Diaz
Speaking from an undisclosed location in Latin America, I can emphatically say that pasar desapercibid@s es nuestra mejor esperanza.
Latin America is far away from the United States, so who really cares.
As far as the media and most of the population are concerned, the second half of that statement is completely accurate, at least until Hugo Chavez says something even mildly unflattering about the US.
But Latin America does have a good time zone!
Four of them, even!
Isn’t being below the radar of the US a good thing for most countries? I’d get worried if I lived in a country that the US started to take an interest in.
There is an important difference between being below the radar for the media and public (addressed here) and for the government. The US government is very much paying attention to and intervening in Latin America (though less so than in the past).
Fair enough. Though I think that a large-scale intervention usually follows growing concerns made public in the media.
Yeah, they spent to much time on Serbia and Romnesia. Almost everything Romney said had something to do with Romnesia.