There has been a strong focus on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Mexico. Not to be outdone, however, is Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming sojourn to Latin America.Biden is expected to leave today for Chile where he’s expected to attend the Progressive Governance Conference in Santiago. The meeting of international leftist leaders will include several Latin American presidents like Cristina Kirchner from Argentina and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. One of the main topics to be discussed will be the international economy in anticipation of the G20 summit next month.
Biden will subsequently stop in Costa Rica over the weekend where President Oscar Arias will be hosting a meeting of Central American leaders. The conference is expected to be attended by most presidents of the region as well as Salvadoran president-elect Mauricio Funes. One notable absence, however, will be Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega who cited “previous engagements”.
Biden’s stops in Chile and Costa Rica should help President Barack Obama ahead of his attending the Summit of the Americas next month. Obama will hear several regional concerns that will first be addressed to Biden:
Central American leaders say they want to discuss U.S. immigration policy when they meet with Vice President Joe Biden in Costa Rica next week.Image- UPI
El Salvador President Tony Saca says 200,000 Salvadorans in the U.S. are in danger of being deported - an issue he hopes to broach with Biden on Monday…
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says colleagues also passed a resolution asking that the U.S. not attach strings to its aid packages.
Online Sources- Voice of America, Mercopress, Bloggings by Boz, Taiwan News Online, MSNBC, AHN, People’s Daily Online
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