Foreign Policy: Latin America

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Foreign PolicyLatin America

• Presented by
• Donovan, Amy, Jacob

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Democratic Socialism

• In 2000 several south American countries elected
  socialist presidents. This places included
  Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,Bolivia,
  Chile, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and most recently
  Paraguay
• Although policies vary they have agreed on
  refusing ALCA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

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Free Trade

• Although the ALCA was abandoned in 2005 Free
  trade agreements werent abandoned
• Regional economic intergration continued reaching
  a total of 10

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The War on Drugs

• Latin America has been a major focus point on
  illicit drug trafficking
• The Foreign Relations Authorization Act requires
  the President to identify the major drug transit
  or major illicit drug-producing countries
• The following countries were identified as major
  drug-producing areas Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil,
  Burma, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
  Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico,
  Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and
  Venezuela. Over half of these are Latin American
  countries.
• Venezuela is one of the countries to be
  recognized for failure to adhere to their
  obligations as part of the international
  counternarcotics agreements
• The U.S.-led war on drugs has not reduced the
  supply of drugs. Instead, it has strengthened
  authoritarian rule and created widespread
  corruption in the Andean countries and undermined
  their economies

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Venezuelan relations/oil

• Since Hugo Chávez was elected President of
  Venezuela, the long-standing close diplomatic
  relationship between Venezuela and the United
  States have progressively worsened due to his
  more socialistic ideologies, though this has had
  a smaller than expected effect on the oil trade
  while the United States remained Venezuelas most
  important trading partner for oil and other
  exports.
• The U.S. during Bushs presidency has called
  Chávez a "negative force" in the region, and has
  tried to gain support from Venezuela's neighbors
  in isolating Cháve.
• Chávez's stance as an OPEC price hawk has raised
  the price of oil for the United States, as
  Venezuela pushed OPEC producers towards a higher
  price per barrel.

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SICOFAA - Cooperation System of the American Air
Forces

• It s an apolitical voluntary international
  organization among the North and South American
  air forces.
• SICOFAA's mission is to promote and strengthen
  the bonds of friendship prevalent in the Air
  Forces of the American Continent, members of the
  System, as well as to achieve the mutual support
  among them through their cooperation to act
  jointly when directed to do so by their
  respective governments.
• Critical topics include air operations, human
  resources, education and training, search and
  rescue, disasters relief, telecommunications,
  aerospace medicine, weather, prevention of plane
  crashes, and scientific research.

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Illegål Immigration

• Refers to the act of foreign nationals violating
  immigration policies and law by immigrating to
  the US without proper consent of the government.
• Is estimated to be down to 11 million, 1.2
  million less than in 2007.
• According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, 57
  are from Mexico, 24 from other Latin American
  countries, 9 from Asia, 6 for Europe and
  Canada, and 4 of the rest of the world.
• Immigrants are classified as illegal for one of
  three reasons entering without authorization or
  inspection, staying beyond the authorized period
  after legal entry, or violating the terms of
  legal entry.

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Sources

• (http//www.fpif.org/fpifindex/latam/)
• (http//www.fpa.org/newsletterinfo2499/newsletteri
  nfo.htm)
• (http//www.wesfryer.com/uslapolicy.html)