U.S-Cuba Relations: A New Paradigm for Latin America?
This Summit of the Americas held in Panama City has been different to the rest in many ways. In spite of me not being a specialist in Latin American affairs and/or North America affairs or U.S.-Latin America relations, as a Latin American and a citizen from the U.S. immediate neighbouring country, I decided to write something about what we are witnessing now in the Summit. I hope this entry is informative for my non-Latin American and non-North America readers. Since I studied my Master's degree in the United Kingdom, I witnessed many arguments that were biased and non-congruent in many ways (not to say unrealistic) regarding the situation being held on this side of the world. The first thing that Europeans and any other peoples who live thousands of kilometers away from us is that one of the biggest challenges faced by Latin America in general, and Mexico in particular, has been the eternal presence and influence of the United States both in regional and internal affairs. ...