Clinton seeking areas of cooperation with Ecuador
Secretary Clinton is pursuing areas for collaboration with Ecuador, and that might persuade the country to go its own way on some issues instead of sticking with Venezuela and ALBA, a leftist alliance of Latin American countries established to counter the proposed U.S.-led Free Trade Area of the Americas. Analyst Christopher Sabatini told Agence France-Presse ...
Secretary Clinton is pursuing areas for collaboration with Ecuador, and that might persuade the country to go its own way on some issues instead of sticking with Venezuela and ALBA, a leftist alliance of Latin American countries established to counter the proposed U.S.-led Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Secretary Clinton is pursuing areas for collaboration with Ecuador, and that might persuade the country to go its own way on some issues instead of sticking with Venezuela and ALBA, a leftist alliance of Latin American countries established to counter the proposed U.S.-led Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Analyst Christopher Sabatini told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the point isn’t for the United States to move Ecuador away from ALBA, but to "allow for more space for countries to go their own way and collaborate in one way with the United States and pursue a more neutral stance."
Areas of collaboration with Ecuador, which Clinton is visiting today, as seen in the photo above with President Rafael Correa, could include the fight against drug trafficking and the expansion of trade preferences, Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue told AFP.
Meanwhile, over at FP‘s Shadow Government blog, José R. Cárdenas tells us not to expect too much out of Clinton’s Latin American visit and specifically lists Ecuador among Latin American countries with which it’ll be difficult for the United States to work on shared interests:
"The administration has its work cut out for it in trying to create momentum in the service of the shared interests we still do have with a number of countries in the Americas. But that will not be created in visits to Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, and other precincts currently infatuated with the anti-American fad."
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