All of a sudden, Latin America is saying that the U.S. is not playing by the same rules as everyone else and this provokes an underlying distrust of the U.S..

This is much more about politics than economics.

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.

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.

The U.S. is going to be worried about Bolivia's connections with Cuba and Venezuela.

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 setback.

That is a dream that has been shattered, evaporated.

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.

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.

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