The following day, it was his foreign minister Hillary Clinton’s turn to tell the Latin American countries to toe the line…
Editorial note:
1) Clinton: Latin American countries should think twice about establishing links with Iran (December 2009)
from the archives:
2) US official: Military coup in Honduras is a lesson for the region not to follow Venezuela’s path (July 2009)
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“We also are well aware of Iran’s interests in promoting itself with a number of other [Latin American] countries [such as] Venezuela and Bolivia […]
[…] I think that if people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the consequences might well be for them, and we hope that they will think twice, […] ”
[US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speech at the at the First Diplomacy Briefing Series Meeting, Washington D.C., 11 December 2009] [1]
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from the archives:
“We certainly think that if we were choosing a model government and a model leader for countries of the region to follow, that the current leadership in Venezuela would not be a particular model. If that is the lesson that President Zelaya has learned from this episode [i.e. the June 2009 military coup in Honduras], that would be a good lesson.”
[US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley, State Department daily press briefing, 20 July 2009] [2]
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notes:
[1] excerpts from: Remarks at the First Diplomacy Briefing Series Meeting, Focused on the Issues and Challenges of U.S. Relations With Latin America
US State Department website, 11 December 2009
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[2] excerpt from: Daily Press Briefing
US State Department website, 20 July 2009
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