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Michelle Bachelet
"The world is ripe for a renewed and strengthened multilateralism, and the support of the U.S. will be decisive." Full text available.
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Rick Waugh
"The new American strategy should be sensitive to the importance of key sectors such as infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, and financial services to economic development." Full text available.
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Andrónico Luksic Craig
"Further trade liberalization will deliver a significant economic boost and a powerful impetus to speed the recovery from the current global economic slowdown."
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Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga
"Perhaps you can channel Presidents Kennedy and Reagan as they stood next to another wall and issue your own declaration: 'Ich bin ein Americano: I will tear down this wall along the Rio Grande."
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Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez
"It is imperative for our Latin American brothers to assume the moral duty of isolating and condemning the Cuban government."
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Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar
"Differences in education, industrialization, productive infrastructure, and technology between the U.S. and our region have grown starker."
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Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter
"A trading community that encompasses the entire continent would foster greater economic integration and lead our region to a new level of development."
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Arturo Sarukhan
"...no other bilateral relationship is more important for the security and prosperity of the U.S. than its relationship with Mexico."
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Leonel Fernández
"Invest a portion of the profits earned from today's high oil prices to benefit the countries that have been worse hit by the multiple price increases."
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Marcelo Claure
"Establish a task force to develop international policy aimed at curbing global carbon emissions, including the introduction of additional multilateral incentives."
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María Teresa Ronderos
"It will make a huge difference if the U.S. government becomes less tolerant of corrupt leaders and values more transparent and open information."
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Victor Leonel Juan Martínez
"The vast number of Mexican immigrants [in the U.S.] represents a highly qualified and motivated labor force that would be a resource to any country."
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Cristina Eguizábal
"The next administration should be bold and establish an important aid package for infrastructure and institution building to help countries demographically linked to the United States."
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Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira
"The way forward is through the strengthening of creative, informed and empowered citizens—not in the reimposition of state controls on society."
The candidate to the IACHR speaks about the IACHR reform process, the June OAS General Assembly and the role of the U.S. in the Inter-American System of Human Rights.
