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Treat Latin Americans as Equals

By Brian Winter

How a little humility (and retiring that "b-word") can help repair the U.S.-Latin America relationship.

In the new issue of Americas Quarterly, we asked people, “What would you tell the next U.S. president about Latin America?” To see other authors’ responses, click here.

Dear Mister / Madam President,

When President Barack Obama visited Brasília in March 2011, then-President Dilma Rousseff gave a fairly boilerplate speech in which she proposed “a partnership of equals” between the two countries.

I was a reporter covering the...

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