Peter Hakim Quotes (12 Quotes)

This is a man who won 54 or 55 percent of the vote, one of the strongest electoral victories in Latin America in the last 11 years. If the U.S. is prepared to support a democratically elected government that does not agree with its policies, this is an opportunity.

What we do not know is how he will govern. There is a big difference between a candidate and a president.

The U.S. doesn't like to have so much oil in someone like that's hands, ... Among Cubans and people who worry about Cuba, there's no question that Chavez's support for Fidel Castro has given Castro a second wind.

That didn't work very well for the administration of Fox. There is no question that Mexico was hoping for a lot more. It did not come away a winner from the United States over the past years.

an economic liberal with a big heart. He has been our guide for 17 years and we expect him to continue making enormous contributions.

One could have imagined a lot worse.

Relations between the regions have reached their lowest point since the end of the Cold War -- they're dismal. They began declining in the mid-1990s when the Clinton administration couldn't come through on a trade agenda, but after September 11 they've taken another turn for the worse.

Argentina has challenged the international community much more than other countries have dared to.

Even in countries that have thrown out presidents, almost every one of them has gone back to elections as the only way to choose new leadership. There's just no other way to do that now. That makes Latin America different.

It will have a tremendous symbolic value that the United States is interested in having relations with the first indigenous president of a very poor country.

Years later, the US and Latin America are at the lowest point in their relationship since the Cold War.

It's certainly somewhat of a disappointment. This had been the planned time. But I think it is a momentary setback more than anything long term. And I think the Democrats were wrong to oppose CAFTA in the first place, and wrong to take pleasure in this se