The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Monday, June 06, 2005  

DISCOVERING LATIN AMERICA
In the White House and in the Media

You can almost set your clocks, or calendars, by it: Once, just once, in an American president’s first or second term, but never in both, the man in the Oval Office will “discover” Latin America, offering the beleaguered region a few days in the spotlight, days filled with correspondingly condescending media coverage, of which “Bush Shifts Focus to Latin America,” by Ron Hutcheson (Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6), is but a single example, and a particularly egregious one at that, adopting as it does, the party line about the purportedly fragile democracies of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, while giving similarly short-shrift treatment to Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile.

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