President Biden prepares to undo Trump's Latin America policy. How far will he go?

[Judi Lynn]

Instead of funding a border wall, Biden will once again take a more diplomatic approach to Latin America, with an accent on corruption and climate change.
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22 ENE 2021 – 04:46 PM EST

Unless you have been living on another planet it will have become obvious by now that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are very different.

So, when it comes to foreign policy – in Latin America for example – it stands to reason that things are going to change under President Biden, who has wasted no time staking out his new policies, especially when it comes to immigration and climate change.

From now on, you can expect to hear less about Mexicans being rapists and murderers and the need to spend billions of dollars on a “beautiful” border wall, as Trump called it. Instead, the focus will be more about fixing the chronic problems of poverty and corruption in Central America that are driving migrants to flee Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Biden’s agenda also includes issues such as climate change that could set him against the hemisphere’s two largest economies, Mexico and Brazil, both led by popular presidents and fierce defenders of their own state-owned oil companies.

Besides a drastically different approach to border security and immigration, experts say the most noticeable differences will be in tone, with Biden reverting to a more collaborative, hemispheric partnership approach, in contrast to Trump’s more nationalist, ‘America First’, style.

“Expect a much more comprehensive, far-reaching approach to our relationship with the hemisphere over these next four years. The former administration's 'with us or without us' approach is now in the past,” said Jason Marczak, director of the Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC.

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