Yesterday Latin America, Tomorrow the World!

Adam Isacson at Democracy Arsenal has a post on looking at U.S. foreign policy through the optic of a Latin American policy specialist. He explains that that “The biggest frustration by far[of being a Latin Americanist]… is watching the United States today repeating mistakes worldwide that it used to make only in Latin America.”

He sets out a series of quotes and descriptions which could all be from today’s headlines from Iraq or Guantanamo but, of course, they all are actually drawn from past U.S. actions in Latin America.

One hopes that we would learn from history. Isacson’s post is a good reminder.