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[Ken Burch]

Barack Obama was elected to bring CHANGE.

In Latin America, the U.S. can ONLY bring change by giving up on the arrogant, old-school right wing attempts to force the other countries to obey us on social and economic issues. All U.S. hostility to the Cuban government, to Hugo Chavez, and to Evo Morales was based solely on the wrongheaded idea that the rich should rule the world and the U.S. rich should rule more than any other rich people.

The only way for a positive future for U.S.-Latin America relations is for the U.S. to accept that the wealth and resources of Latin America are first and foremost for the good of the PEOPLE of Latin America, not the rich.

Let's finally put imperialism in the grave. Let's admit that Latin America has the absolute right to set its own course, and that that right includes the right to put human dignity and human needs before the profits of the few.

It's what Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would do.