Tillerson’s Trip to Latin America: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International   Center for Scholars With a handful of notable exceptions, the tone and substance of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent swing through five Latin American and Caribbean countries made it almost hard to remember that he works for the Trump administration.  Over the past year, the President’s public and private discourse, from the border wall to “shithole” countries, has poisoned U.S.-Latin American relations and caused U.S. standing in the region to plummet.  So anything resembling normal and even informed diplomacy was a welcome departure. Critics have been quick to seize […]