Friday, April 23, 2010

White House policy of ignoring President Chávez’s insults is failing

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The Obama Administration has been at pains to extend an open hand to Hugo Chávez but officials admit that a policy of trying to work with him has failed. Officials also say that a central element of dealing with the Venezuelan President is to try, as much as possible, to ignore his insults and anti-US incitement because t*t-for-tat exchanges only bolster his status in the region. Yet there appears to be no consensus about how to deal with him.

One fundamental problem is the US’s waning influence in Latin America ...

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