Title: U.S.-Latin America Relations | Council on Foreign Relations
Headings: U.S.-Latin America Relations
U.S.-Latin America Relations
Politics and Government
Task Force Members

Content: All of this reinforces deep U.S. ties with the region—strategic, economic, and cultural—but also deep concerns. More on: Mexico
Latin America
Politics and Government
United States
This report makes clear that the era of the United States as the dominant influence in Latin America is over. Countries in the region have not only grown stronger but have expanded relations with others, including China and India. U.S. attention has also focused elsewhere in recent years, particularly on challenges in the Middle East. The result is a region shaping its future far more than it shaped its past. At the same time Latin America has made substantial progress, it also faces ongoing challenges. Democracy has spread, economies have opened, and populations have grown more mobile. But many countries have struggled to reduce poverty and inequality and to provide for public security. The Council on Foreign Relations established an Independent Task Force to take stock of these changes and assess their consequences for U.S. policy toward Latin America.