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...CHILE This Security Council member has argued for giving more time to the U.N. inspectors. But it has a trade deal with Washington that needs congressional approval...
...Bush administration need not confine its coalition to "the willing" - or at least the eager - but may be in the process of extending it to the "willing for a price." The leverage of U.S. economic muscle, aid and trade agreements will be used to convince the likes of Mexico, Chile, Angola, Guinea and Cameroon to vote with Washington at the Security Council. And France may be doing the same to keep particularly the African nations in its corner...
Some initial gestures have, in fact, been made in this direction; right now, a pilot study-abroad program—Harvard’s first—is underway in Santiago, Chile. Though the students are not being taught by Harvard faculty, the college—through the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies—is coordinating many aspects of their academic and extracurricular lives while in Chile...
...communiqu? to Mexican embassies worldwide acquired by the AP advises that Mexico's position on the Iraq war will be determined exclusively by its primary "national interest," which is its relationship with the U.S. Washington may also be hoping that Chile's interest in pursuing trade agreements with the U.S. will sway its decision, and that similar aid-and-trade incentives could tempt Angola, Guinea and Cameroon to back the U.S. position...
Your article pointed out that the CIA's participation in installing repressive regimes in Iran, Guatemala and Chile "ended up doing more damage in the long run to U.S. foreign policy." But more important, as a direct result of CIA intervention in foreign countries, despotic dictators were given the power to politically oppress their people and to imprison, torture and murder them. Ironically, these are among the same abuses that the U.S. government now cites in its argument for a military invasion of Iraq. Our policymakers continue to demonstrate a purely self-serving attitude toward the populations of poor...