Monday, November 24, 2008

Report suggests policy turnaround


A foreign policy report released today urges Barack Obama's administration to put Latin America at the center of its foreign policy concerns.

The Brookings Institution scheduled the report for release today and offers some policy changes.

The one that Obama might question is the encouragement of free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama. Obama seemed hesitant to support this while campaigning.

They suggest lifting travel restrictions on Americans to Cuba and taking the country off the list of state-sponsored terrorism sites.

The report also suggested the America's relationship with Venezuela might benefit from the new administration, which is seen as caring more about the soceity's poor and "downtrodden."

Read more here.

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