Romney and trade with Latin America

I was invited to contribute a short blurb to the Inter-American Dialogue's Latin America Monitor on what trade (and overall policy) would like between the US and Latin America under a Romney administration. Here's what I concluded.

Emphasizing greater trade with Latin America as a campaign issue is a safe choice for Romney. Most other policy issues which he could have addressed – Cuba, Venezuela, Hezbollah and Iran, the 2009 Honduran coup, immigration, drug and weapons trafficking, decriminalization, cartel and gang violence – have their detractors at home and abroad. However, it is much more difficult to criticize increasing trade between the U.S. and Latin America.

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