Clinton to visit Latin America

[Judi Lynn]

Clinton to visit Latin America
08:43, February 25, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica and Guatemala from February 28 to March 5, said the State Department on Wednesday.

Secretary Clinton will attend President Jose Mujica's inauguration on March 1 in Uruguay, from where she will travel to Santiago for meeting with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and President-elect Sebastian Piera.

On March 3, Clinton will meet with President Lula da Silva and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia.

In Costa Rica, Clinton will deliver a speech at the Americas Ministerial Meeting and will meet with President Oscar Arias Sanchez and President-elect Laura Chinchilla.

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LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4283363

Hope her reception will be calmer than the one given _{George W. Bush,} when he gave Latin America a big thrill by visiting.

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AP Photo 35 months ago
A Mayan priest performs a cleansing ceremony at the temple that was visited by U.S.
President George W. Bush on Monday in the Iximche archaeological site, fearing
President Bush brought bad spirits, in Guatemala, Thursday, March 15, 2007. Bush
visited Iximche during a five-nation tour of Latin America, which included a daylong
stopover in Guatemala.


And during his Brazil stop:

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[roody]

1. May there be many protests!

[Peace Patriot]

2. I loved the Mayan priest one--cleansing the area where Junior walked!

Mayan priest performs a cleansing ceremony at the temple that was visited by U.S.
President George W. Bush on Monday in the Iximche archaeological site, fearing
President Bush brought bad spirits, in Guatemala, Thursday, March 15, 2007. Bush
visited Iximche during a five-nation tour of Latin America, which included a daylong
stopover in Guatemala.

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I read somewhere that President Colom of Guatemala is a Mayan priest. He's not Mayan but he studied the language and religion and became a priest. I wonder if he will secretly burn incense behind Hillary or cleanse her path after she leaves. She is in many ways more dangerous to Latin American sovereignty and democracy than Rice or Bush. One wonders how she can show her face in Brazil or anywhere but Costa Rica, after her treachery on Honduras.

It's a curious itinerary: Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Not Colombia, upon which the U.S. has larded $7 billion in military aid, and has a brand spanking new military agreement to invade Venezuela...um, to stop drug trafficking. Har-har. But I guess Panetta has to clear the decks first, before Clinton can go there. And not Mexico, where some billions of dollars have been used to instigate a drug cartel war. Is she punishing Calderon for something--maybe for not yet being able to privatize Mexico's oil, or for telling us to clean up our gun-running act? Or maybe she's aware that when Junior landed in Mexico, Calderon (of all people!) gave him a public lecture on respecting the sovereignty of Latin American countries, and used Venezuela as an example! Odd she would leave Mexico out.

She is avoiding the countries where big protests are guaranteed--Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras--the countries that the U.S. has particularly insulted or tried to outright destroy with psyops, mutli-millions of dollars funneled to rightwing groups and at least three coup attempts--one successful--the one of Obama/Clinton's watch! This is a cowardly tour. Why doesn't she go look at her handiwork in Honduras? Not enough leftist activists cleansed by the death squads yet?

Brazilians might come through. Brazilians cannot be happy with the way she treated their beloved President Lulu on Honduras-- but the new all Latin American trade group, now pulling South America and Central America/Caribbean countries together in one group, with no invitation to the U.S., is surely Lulu's handiwork in great measure and must give him some satisfaction to have pulled off so quickly. That might be an interesting meeting. He has already told her to go jump in a lake--in so many words--a couple of times so far. He is always polite, though, and we shall have to attend to the scuttlebutt and gossip to find out what really happened.

It is dismaying when you start educating yourself and learn to see our leaders through other peoples' eyes. It is not pretty.

Well, she can bask in the sunlight of the rightwing victory in Chile, anyway. That must have made her day.