Bolivia’s recent presidential election was almost as history making as Iraq’s parliamentary vote. The winner, Evo Morales, will be the first member of the indigenous majority to run Bolivia since the conquistadors arrived nearly five centuries ago. His victory was one of the most decisive since the return of democracy more than two decades ago, ending an era of weak, unstable and ineffective governments.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb But do not expect any toasts from the Bush administration. During the campaign, Mr. Morales advertised himself as Washington’s nightmare. He opposes almost everything the Bush team stands for in Latin America, from combating coca leaf production to privatizing natural resources and liberalizing trade. His favorite Latin leaders are Hugo Ch\u00e1vez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba. And the political popularity of these anti-Washington positions is part of a growing regional trend.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The political balance in Latin America has clearly been shifting to the left. Nearly 300 million of South America’s 365 million people live under left-wing governments. While many of these governments, like Brazil’s and Chile’s, have worked hard to cooperate with the United States, others, like Venezuela’s, have gone out of their way to bait Washington. Mr. Morales gives every indication of following the Ch\u00e1vez approach. And there could be similar lurches to the demagogic left in the numerous Latin American elections soon coming up in places like Peru, Mexico and Nicaragua.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb One explanation is that nearly two decades of Washington-recommended economic and trade policies have not done much for millions of urban and rural poor. Another is that the Bush administration has not shown much interest in addressing Latin American social problems. And Mr. Bush has done a terrible job of cultivating personal relationships with Latin American leaders.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb When denunciations of Yanqui imperialism in Latin America start coming from the presidential palaces as well as the streets and opposition benches, Washington needs to change its ways. The friendship of neighbors is a terrible thing to lose.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 25 d\u00e9cembre 2005 \u00e0 16H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cet \u00e9ditorial du New York Times, du 24 d\u00e9cembre, sur A Different Latin America, marque une inqui\u00e9tude grandissante dans l’establishment am\u00e9ricaniste. Il s’adresse \u00e0 l’administration GW et relaie une opinion d\u00e9sormais majoritaire \u00e0 Washington et \u00e0 New York (Wall Street): il est temps d’essayer une autre politique que les invectives mena\u00e7antes et les coups fourr\u00e9s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3304,4118,4901,3256,2852,3257],"class_list":["post-67130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-chavez","tag-establishment","tag-morales","tag-new","tag-times","tag-york"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}