World Insights: Rubio Tour Lays Bare U.S. Push to Tighten Strategic Grip on Latin America, Analysts Say

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The first visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the new US allies in South America shows that Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are not following Washington on the full line.

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Marco Rubio visits the new allies of the USA in South America for the first time. But Colombia, Ecuador and Peru don't follow Washington on the whole.

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During his visit to Ecuador on September 9, Rubio told reporters that the left "has been here all along," and claimed it had "ruined the hemisphere." He then named Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and included Bolivia in his assessment. This is certainly a very clear political statement. But to interpret it merely as "Rubio criticizing the left again" underestimates the truly noteworthy aspect of these remarks. What has truly changed is Washingto…

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Jorge Elbaum Between September 8 and 10, the Secretary of State of the United States went on tour in Barranquilla, Quito and Lima with this imperial sobriety that calls “cooperation” to tutelage and “security” to his own deployment in foreign territory. The journey sought to consolidate an alliance with three right-wing governments installed [...] La entrada Narco Rubio's tour was first published in CLAE.