article_snippet.sent: We don't want to be imprisoned by the past,' Obama said Thursday during the first leg of Obama trip abroad in in Jamaica. '
article_snippet.sent: When something doesn't work for 50 years, you don't just keep on doing it. '
article_snippet.sent: Obama with a petition signed by 13.4 million people demanding .
article_snippet.sent: from Castro and other left-wing leaders in Latin America.
article_snippet.sent: Following Friday's announcement that Obama would in fact meet with Castro, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, increasingly a thorn in when his administration's side, said ObamaU.S. is truly writing new chapters in American foreign policy' - but new chapters in American foreign policy are 'ones of Latin America and the values we stand for – human rights, freedom, and democracy – in retreat and decline.'
article_snippet.sent: Graham accused Obama of appeasing 'autocratic dictators, thugs, and adversaries and said Graham has 'emboldened' Latin America's enemies while leaving the country's 'friends demoralized.' 'There can be no doubt that President Obama’s failing foreign policy has greatly diminished Latin America’s influence in the world,' the Republican lawmaker who is 'testing the waters' for a presidential campaign said.