After Iran Warning Obama Sends to Brazil His Number One Man for LatAm

[Judi Lynn]

After Iran Warning Obama Sends to Brazil His Number One Man for LatAm
Written by Newsroom
Monday, 14 December 2009

The governments of Brazil and Bolivia reacted strongly to the US message to Latin America about "flirting" with the Iran regime. Brazil is "minimizing" the Monday visit of a top US Department official and Bolivia said that it is sovereign and practices a "dialogue culture" with all countries.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week warned Latin American countries "to think twice" about strategic alliances with Iran, which she described as the "world's leading promoter and exporter of terrorism."

Last month Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on an official tour of Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. The US and Israel are fearful of the Teheran regime's growing "infiltration" and "penetration" of Latin America.

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"It wasn't a message for Brazil. And if it was, it was the wrong message", said Garcia quoted by O Estado de S. Paulo, which was his only official statement on the coming visit.

From Washington Valenzuela denied any misunderstandings with Brazil because of recent public differences between presidents Obama and Lula on the Honduras elections, Iran and the climate change summit in Copenhagen. "We just have a few diverging views in some issues", Valenzuela was quoted by Folha, which anticipates that Honduras and Iran are precisely the issues to be addressed when the US envoy arrives Monday.

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