U.S. Policy Toward Bolivia

Thanks to my brother for pointing out this article in today's Washington Post about U.S. policy toward Bolivia. It’s written by Pamela Constable, a long-time observer of Latin America and the co-author (with Arturo Valenzuela) of A Nation of Enemies, a very good book on the Pinochet regime.

What she says can give us some hope, at least for now, because she argues that U.S. officials tend to see Evo Morales as pragmatic, and therefore are not jumping on him immediately. I’ve already noted this “wait and see” attitude, and how delicate it is. So far, however, we haven’t blown it, which for U.S. policy toward Latin America is saying something.