What Obama didn’t say about Latin America

I’ve read with great attention President Barack Obama’s article in The Miami Herald earlier this week on how to improve US relations with Latin America. It was pretty disappointing.

The article, headlined ‘Improving our Partnership’ and published after Obama’s return from a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, says that “this is a moment of great promise for our hemisphere” and is full of feel-good talk about the future of the Americas.

But, sadly, it showed the absence of any US plans to drastically expand trade ties with