Looking for new approaches to Latin America
As President-elect Obama prepares to take office, our neighbors to the south have a few suggestions for the incoming president. A new report from the Brookings Institution documents several of them: expanding free trade, changing the rhetoric on the war on drugs, even normalizing relations with Cuba. The director of the Latin America Institute at Brookings joins the Takeaway to discuss the possibility of new approaches to Latin American relations.
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