Just heard this. Cuba and Venezuela will not be invited to the Conference of the Americas.

[wnylib]

25. Well, I am not about to get into the length and time

that it would take to cover the entire history of US relations with Latin America.

I can remember some of the issues during my lifetime - United Fruit's backing by our State Department and the connection between United Fruit and members of the Eisenhower administration, the US backing of Batista and the subsequent Cuban Revolution, the conditions in Cuba that led to overthrowing Batista, Nixon as VP being protested during a trip through Latin America when the people shouted and carried signs saying, "Yankee go home."

And that doesn't even include Pinochet in Chile, the US in Panama, etc.

As I said, too much time and space to cover it all.

But feel free to do it yourself if you like. I am not disputing US human rights violations in Latin America (and elsewhere), nor am I whitewashing them. There is just too much history there to cover it all.