Article by Alina Rocha Menocal, first published in the ODI blog

President-elect Barack Obama is taking office facing an extraordinary list of international challenges, ranging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to relations with North Korea and Iran to the global financial meltdown. Expectations for change are enormous, and clearly Obama will need to make some hard choices about what issues to prioritise. Yet, he cannot afford to lose sight of Latin America as his predecessor did. Focusing on the ‘war on terror’ with single-minded determination since 9/11, the Bush administration displayed a strange – and misguided – ...   more »