I got the below invitation in my email box this morning, addressed to me and a whole lot of other AU faculty as part of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Policy Classroom. Now why would State be so eager to have its golpista OAS ambassador Lomellin "school" a bunch of professors working in Latin America? And is it really a coincidence that this insidious PR effort comes just as Michael Shifter publishes his desperate defense of the upcoming Cartagena Summit? Recall that in Trinidad and Tobago, Obama made a clear promise that a new era had begun, an era of multilateralism. Were that the case, were it not the case that the Obama administration's policy in Latin America had in fact been far more harmful to democracy than the previous administration's policy, State would not be facing the threat of true multilateralism in Latin America.
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