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With the election of Felipe Calderón Hinjosa as president of Mexico earlier this week, Harvard-related politicians capped off an impressive year that included electoral victories in Liberia, Canada, and Colombia...
Finally, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the staunchest American ally in Latin America, was re-elected president of Colombia in May. A conservative who was first elected in 2002 and holds a certificate in Administration and Management from Harvard, Uribe has won acclaim for improving security in a nation long ravaged by drug cartels, Marxist insurgent groups, and right-wing paramilitaries—although some have accused him of having ties to these groups...
...electing conservatives, Colombia and Mexico have bucked the leftist trend sweeping through Latin America. Over the past few years, left-of center governments have come to power by winning elections in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru...
...build. When the Colombian government turned down a proposed deal for a 100-year lease of territory in its province of Panama, the President threw his weight--and the weight of a naval landing party--in favor of one of the perennial Panamanian uprisings aimed at gaining independence from Colombia. Twelve days after Washington recognized the new nation of Panama, in November 1903, it signed with deep satisfaction a canal treaty with Panama that was identical to the one rejected by Colombia...
Panama was a province of Colombia when Theodore Roosevelt took up the idea of building a canal after a failed attempt by France. When the Colombian government rejected a new treaty allowing the U.S. to build a canal, Roosevelt became enraged. Soon after, a group of Panamanian separatist leaders declared a revolution. That same day, U.S. gunboats appeared off the coast to keep Colombia from reclaiming its territory. Roosevelt vigorously denied that the U.S. had fomented the revolution but defended his actions in characteristic terms: "To have acted otherwise ... would have been betrayal of the interests of the United States...