abstract:Peter Hakim is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank on Western Hemisphere affairs. He served as president of the Dialogue from 1993 to 2010.
PeterHakim of Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington, DC, says that relations betweentheUnited StatesandLatin Americahave reached their lowest pointsince the cold war.