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    President Barack Obama will establish a cooperative new relationship with Latin America this week.

    President Obama travels to Mexico on Thursday for his first visit to the region as president and heads to Trinidad and Tobago on Friday for the Fifth Summit of the Americas. As he did in his triumphant success at the G20 summit of major economic powers in London this month, the popluar president plans to mend fences with Latin leaders ignored or offended by the failed Bush administration.

    "With all that is at stake today, we cannot afford to talk past one another," President Obama said. "We have to find, and build on, our mutual interests. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is a democratically elected leader. We must put forward a vision of democracy that goes beyond the ballot box. The person living in fear of violence doesn’t care if they’re threatened by a right-wing paramilitary or a left-wing terrorist; they don’t care if they’re being threatened by a drug cartel or a corrupt police force. They just care that they’re being threatened, and that their families can’t live and work in peace. That is why there will never be true security unless we focus our efforts on targeting every source of fear in the Americas. That’s what I’ll do."

    Ptesident Obama's huge popularity, especially compared to disgraced and universally hated former President George W. Bush, gives him tremendous goodwill as he begins the visit.
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