Meanwhile, In Latin America...
Iran’s Latin America pushMore at Fausta's blog.
As Washington ignores the region, Tehran has been making friends and influencing nations, most notably in Venezuela, Paraguay and Bolivia:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for instance, has held up his close ties with Iran as an example of what his revolution can do for the region. He has much to show for it, including an Iranian ammunition factory, a car assembly plant, a cement factory and other such examples of Iranian involvement. And just to make sure the U.S. can’t interfere (as it has in the past), Iran Air initiated direct air service between Tehran, Damascus and Caracas.Then there’s Paraguay’s new president, Fernando Lugo Mendez, who was lauded in the Iranian media as “an enemy of the Great Satan” after naming Hezbollah sympathizer and fundraiser Alejandro Hamed Franco as the country’s new foreign minister. Hezbollah — which is Iranian funded and supported — already has a well-documented presence in Paraguay, and the U.S. State Department has banned the minister from entering the United States or from flying on a U.S. airline.
Bolivian President Evo Morales jumped into Iran’s lap even more quickly than his neighbors, ordering his foreign minister to lift visa restrictions on Iranian citizens in exchange for a $1.1-billion Iranian investment in Bolivia’s gas facilities. Morales then gushed that Bolivia would move its only embassy in the Middle East from Cairo to Tehran. Iranian state television even agreed to provide Bolivian state television with Spanish-language programming, making it that much easier for every Bolivian to receive Iranian-produced news and documentary shows — i.e. propaganda.
How will Obama handle foreign-policy issues here in the same hemisphere as the United States? We shall see, we shall see.
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