Trump, Clinton would be very different on Latin America

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Judging from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy views expressed in their nomination speeches, they would carry out very different policies toward Latin America.

Here are some of their main differences:

First, on human rights and democracy, Trump would make a radical departure from the long-standing bi-partisan U.S. policy of making the respect for human rights and democracy key conditions for Washington’s good relations with countries in the region.

«Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo, » Trump said in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21.

Trump, who has repeatedly spoken in positive terms about Russia’s strongman Vladimir Putin, said that he would not demand that Turkey and other authoritarian U.S. allies respect human rights.

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