August 6, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
I was pleased to read in The New York Times "White House Party for Africa Leaves Out Leaders" August 5, 2010 of your ambition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of African independence with who you hope will be Africa’s future leaders rather than the Continent’s current heads of state.
Our policy towards African undoubtedly needs to change and I hope that your substantial reflection on the needs of Africa will be beneficial to its future development and to ours.
I wish that you would also consider a fresh approach, on our own continent, towards Latin America.
Please continue to work to open relations with Cuba, refuse further military aid to Honduras and hold up “best practice” states like Nicaragua which, while poor, has managed to find a positive, effective counter to the gangs and drug wars that plague the likes of Mexico and Colombia.
While making dramatic changes in our foreign policy towards Latin America might be politically uncomfortable such bold measures are as needed on this side of the Atlantic as they are in Africa.
Thank you for your service,
-HW
U.S. Citizen, voter
Dear Mr. President,
I was pleased to read in The New York Times "White House Party for Africa Leaves Out Leaders" August 5, 2010 of your ambition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of African independence with who you hope will be Africa’s future leaders rather than the Continent’s current heads of state.
Our policy towards African undoubtedly needs to change and I hope that your substantial reflection on the needs of Africa will be beneficial to its future development and to ours.
I wish that you would also consider a fresh approach, on our own continent, towards Latin America.
Please continue to work to open relations with Cuba, refuse further military aid to Honduras and hold up “best practice” states like Nicaragua which, while poor, has managed to find a positive, effective counter to the gangs and drug wars that plague the likes of Mexico and Colombia.
While making dramatic changes in our foreign policy towards Latin America might be politically uncomfortable such bold measures are as needed on this side of the Atlantic as they are in Africa.
Thank you for your service,
-HW
U.S. Citizen, voter
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