Rice’s book shows ‘inattention’ to Latin America

Condoleezza Rice

If political biographies of recent US presidents and top foreign policy officials are any indication of what goes on in their mind — and I think they are — the new book by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks for itself: it’s about 98 per cent about the Middle East, Russia and Asia, and 2 per cent about Latin America.

Rice, whose boss President George W Bush vowed during the 2000 campaign to make Latin America a “fundamental commitment” of his presidency, devotes only two of the 58 chapters