Some Latin America Leaders Welcome Biden Victory. For others It’s a Moment of Reckoning
Some Latin America Leaders Welcome Biden Victory. For others It’s a Moment of Reckoning
“People are reading into this election based on their own policy priorities and I think that’s natural,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Miami Herald.
As Haitians watched the agonizing vote counting in the United States last week, the country’s daily, Le Nouvelliste, summed up the mood in the nation’s leadership with a cartoon of President Jovenel Moise watching a television showing Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump in the Electoral College…
Not surprising, Latin America and Caribbean politicians have been looking at the U.S. presidential election through the prism of their own domestic interests, said Eric Farnsworth, vice president for the Council of the Americas and a former U.S. State Department official.
“People are reading into this election based on their own policy priorities and I think that’s natural,” Farnsworth said. “It does seem some leaders have clearly developed good times with the current White House and therefore listened to some of the same commentary and media voices that the Trump White House is listening to and developing their own understanding of the U.S. electoral process based on that.”…
