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...former Rep. Ellen Tauscher, another California Democrat who recently left the House for a State Department job. "She's always very responsive to constituents. She knows the politics of every district. She knows exactly what the sweet spot is for all 216-plus. That's unseen before in an American woman, probably in any woman." (See a profile of Nancy Pelosi...
...from Latin America. Mexico was once the region's vocero, its spokesman. But in the past decade, the country's diplomatic role seems to have fallen aside - apparent in Mexico's failure to engage with the coup crisis in Honduras last year - and has been assumed by its South American rival Brazil. In fact, says a senior Mexican official, President Felipe Calderón and his compatriots are all too aware that the foreign policy spotlight in the Americas today is "shining over Brazil." (See pictures from inside Mexico's drug tunnels...
...Calderón gets set to host U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on March 23, he looks determined to fill that void again. Last month he convened a summit in Cancún to create a multilateral organization promoting regional unity - a body that includes all 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations but pointedly excludes the U.S. and Canada. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) "makes possible an old desire that [we] have [our] own space for dialogue and political resolutions," says Salvador Beltrán del Río, Mexico's Foreign Relations Undersecretary...
...former adviser to the Mexican government. But Mexico has paid a price for focusing so much on its relationship with Washington. It sends an inordinate 80% of its exports to the U.S., for example. As a result, it has been hit by the recession harder than many other Latin American countries...
...part, the Obama Administration says it wants more of a "partnership" with Latin America instead of the traditional U.S. dominance.) But if history is any guide, it's doubtful that the situation will lead to anything like a Latin version of the European Union (E.U.). The Latin American landscape is littered with the acronyms of failed attempts to realize Simón Bolívar's dream of regional unity, and CELAC may well turn out to be little more than Calderón's attempt to make Mexico regionally and globally relevant again alongside Brazil (which, not coincidentally, sends...