Foreword / Mauricio Cardenas -- 1. The Obama Administration and the Americas / Abraham F. Lowenthal -- 2. Mexico and the United States : the search for a strategic vision / Carlos Heredia and Andrés Rozental -- 3. Obama and Brazil / João Augusto de Castro Neves and Matias Spektor -- 4. The United States and Colombia : recalibrating the relationship / Michael Shifter -- 5. The Chávez challenge for Obama : an inconvenient marriage or frosty separation / Jennifer McCoy -- 6. U.S.-Bolivian relations : behind the impasse / George Gray Molina -- 7. Obama's Cuba policy : the end of the "new beginning" / Daniel P. Erikson -- 8. The Honduran crisis and the Obama Administration / Kevin Casas-Zamora -- 9. Haiti : life beyond survival / Juan Gabriel Valdés -- 10. The democracy agenda for the Americas : the case for multilateral action / Theodore J. Piccone -- 11. Obama and the Americas : old hopes, new risks / Laurence Whitehead
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"Examines the successful and unsuccessful approaches to rapprochement between the United States and various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean after the first year of the Obama administration against a background of initial optimism giving way to both U.S. and Latin American domestic political realities"--Provided by publisher