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v Contents Foreword vii Mauricio Cardenas 1 The Obama Administration and the Americas 1 Abraham F. Lowenthal 2 Mexico and the United States: The Search for a Strategic Vision 29 Carlos Heredia and Andrés Rozental 3 Obama and Brazil 43 João Augusto de Castro Neves and Matias Spektor 4 The United States and Colombia: Recalibrating the Relationship 55 Michael Shifter 5 The Chávez Challenge for Obama: An Inconvenient Marriage or Frosty Separation 69 Jennifer McCoy 00-0562-8 fm.indd 5 11/2/10 11:14 AM vi Contents 6 U.S.-Bolivian Relations: Behind the Impasse 86 George Gray Molina 7 Obama’s Cuba Policy: The End of the “New Beginning” 100 Daniel P. Erikson 8 The Honduran Crisis and the Obama Administration 114 Kevin Casas-Zamora 9 Haiti: Life beyond Survival 132 Juan Gabriel Valdés 10 The Democracy Agenda in the Americas: The Case for Multilateral Action 145 Theodore J. Piccone 11 Obama and the Americas: Old Hopes, New Risks 165 Laurence Whitehead Contributors 183 Index 185 00-0562-8 fm.indd 6 11/2/10 11:14 AM ...

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