President Biden recently asked Canada to lead a security force to stabilize Haiti. While neither side “wants to do this as something that just props up the [interim] government,” a lack of action “doesn’t mean 11 million people go away. It just means we’re not paying attention,” says USIP’s Keith Mines.

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Venezuela was a recurrent topic of discussions during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent tour through Latin America, says USIP’s Keith Mines: “The hemisphere is looking for a new approach to Venezuela … the previous consensus of just adding more pressure and hoping for the best is breaking down.”

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By: Embajador P. Michael McKinley (retirado.)

A pesar de los esfuerzos de la administración Biden para esbozar una visión nueva y positiva para el compromiso con América Latina y el Caribe, es probable que entren en juego viejos puntos de quiebre en la próxima Cumbre de las Américas, que comienza en Los Ángeles el 6 de junio. Tanto la política interna de los Estados Unidos, como los gobiernos del hemisferio con una visión más escéptica de Washington y sus intenciones contribuyen a estas tensiones. Se requiere una nueva perspectiva estadounidense - una que tenga más en cuenta la diversidad, las prioridades y la complejidad política de la región. Sin tal cambio, es probable que la percepción y la realidad del declive de la influencia de los EE. UU. solo se profundicen.

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