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Secretary of State John Kerry, at the Washington headquarters

of the Organization of American States, asserted that the Monroe

Doctrine, a policy that equated Latin America as the U.S. backyard

- is dead. Immediately, though, he seemed to contradict himself.

 

 

Kerry's 'End of Monroe Doctrine' Seems More Like New Beginning (La Jornada, Mexico)

 

"It is clear that if the old colonialist policy formulated by John Quincy Adams and enunciated for the first time by President James Monroe - 'America for Americans' (referring to the people of the United States) - is out of date, that doesn't signify a desire on the part of the political powers in Washington to renounce their never-ending zeal for foreign intervention in Latin America. Kerry himself, in his speech at the OAS, made evident that among the U.S. political class, the thinking toward its continental neighbors has not changed one iota."

 

EDITORIAL

 

Translated By Halszka Czarnocka

 

November 21, 2013

 

Mexico – La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)

SNAKE TO THE MOUSE:
'Now that we are treating one another as equals - pass me the oil.'

LA JORNADA, MEXICO

 

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Monday, at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), Secretary of State John Kerry assured members that the era of the Monroe Doctrine has ended, and that now, Washington desires to share responsibility with other countries on the continent and make decisions as partners, in the context of a relationship of equals.

 

Immediately after that, the secretary contradicted himself, indicating on his own and without consulting anyone, an order of priorities for the region: promoting democracy (the U.S. way), improving education, and adopting new environmental protection measures. At the same time, Kerry mentioned the slogan of boosting cooperation in the area of security, and of particular concern for Mexico since it augurs additional pressure to privatize its petroleum industry, development of the energy sector.

 

If pretensions of dictating the agendas of sovereign nations isn't bad enough, the senior U.S. diplomat, as expressed in his newly synthesized Monroe Doctrine, exposed for everyone the extent to which his country's traditional interventionism into the affairs of other states remains intact, launching into a criticism of the governments in Cuba and Venezuela for domestic issues Washington has no right to opine about.

 

In all of its incoherence and even grotesqueness, Kerry's speech reflects a certain implicit recognition of the loss of U.S. influence in the rest of the Americas.

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The diminished regional weight of the superpower is due not to a decision made by the government in Washington, but political projects for the recovery of sovereignty and Latin American integration being implemented in various nations of South America over the last decade: in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Uruguay. Such projects, singular and distinct, are as one in stressing the need to set a new direction for the economic, political and social rights of  nations beyond U.S. dictates, whether direct or mediated through international financial institutions. Such organizations also converge on the need to build regional forums and regional institutions free of Washington's presence, including Mercusur, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States - and in the necessity of diversifying relations, commercially and technologically, with countries in other parts of the globe that constitute a geopolitical counterweight to the United States, like Russia, China, and Iran.

 

With these elements in mind, it is clear that if the old colonialist policy formulated by John Quincy Adams and enunciated for the first time by President James Monroe - "America for Americans" (referring to the people of the United States) - is out of date, that doesn't signify a desire on the part of the political powers in Washington to renounce their never-ending zeal for foreign intervention in Latin America. Kerry himself, in his speech on Monday at the OAS, made evident that among the U.S. political class, the thinking toward its continental neighbors has not changed one iota.

 

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Posted By Worldmeets.US Nov. 21, 2013, 8:42am