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Obama and Latin America: What He Really Promises
by Diana Barahona

"President Obama has a decision to make: either he will be on the side  
of the people and ecological sustainability, or on the side of  
transnational capital. He cannot steer a neutral course because he  
will be in charge of two enormous bureaucracies--the State Department  
and the National Security Agency--which have as their mission the  
removal of all obstacles to the accumulation of corporate profits. If  
he decides to switch sides, it will be in defiance not only of  
powerful economic and military interests, but of the team of advisors  
he has so far relied on. He will have to let them all go and bring in  
an entirely new group of people. The chance of that happening is next-
to-none." Read the whole article here