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Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Alejandro Poire—a scholar of Mexican politics who is teaching an undergraduate course on the subject in the fall—said that this election’s emphasis on economic policy was not surprising because “every single poll taken shows that employment is what people care about...
...campaign was tarred by sharp negative attacks, including suggestions by the Calderón campaign that Lopez Obrador is another incarnation of Venezuelan President Hugo R. Chávez, the left-wing former general who has become one of the U.S.’s strongest opponents in Latin America...
...critics also say López has a self-righteous streak that colors his campaign, such as when he refused to take part in the first presidential debate. The Harvard-educated Calderón, 43, has run negative ads that equate López with Latin America's left-wing bogeyman, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and he charges that López's social welfare agenda will jeopardize the nation's decade-long economic recovery and return Mexico to the debt nightmares of its past...
...Latin American states discovered to their dismay, was the Roosevelt Corollary to that doctrine, which the President proclaimed in 1904. If we do not want third powers to take action against wrongdoing regimes in our hemisphere, the President stated, "then sooner or later we must keep order ourselves." What that meant was that the U.S. was claiming for itself the right to intervene in the affairs of hemispheric nations when those nations aroused the displeasure of Washington...
...Roosevelt wins the election, saying, "I am glad to be elected President in my own right." His Dec. 6 message to Congress includes the so-called Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which justifies U.S. intervention in Latin America. In 1905 he establishes the Forest Service; gives away his niece Eleanor Roosevelt at her March 17 wedding to distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt; brokers the Treaty of Portsmouth--signed on Sept. 5 in New Hampshire--ending the Russo-Japanese War; and persuades colleges to make football games less dangerous. The next year, T.R. mediates a dispute between France and Germany...