April 9, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama has clearly noticed that many in Latin America and the Caribbean have an uncanny affinity for the myth of the Cuban revolution. What he has yet to realize, however, is that the vast majority of the region's citizens would rather live in the Chile built by Augusto Pinochet than in the Cuba destroyed by Fidel Castro.
As Obama travels to Panama this week for his third Summit of the Americas, he encounters a region that has lost stability and prosperity since the president first attended the summit in 2009. Although he hoped to harvest accolades for his rapprochement with Havana, Obama will instead be greeted by a coterie of hostile counterparts, led by Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and abetted by Castro, who are determined to sever Washington's remaining influence in a hemisphere critical to U.S. prosperity and security.
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