Obama: Pluses, minuses on Latin America issues - 02/17/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
(...)"Asked how Obama's proposed policies toward Latin America differ from Sen. Clinton's, senior aides to Obama pointed at several differences:
• Obama and Clinton have clashed in several debates over whether they would meet -- without preconditions -- with U.S. foes, such as Cuba's Fidel Castro or Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. He said yes, she said no.
Foreign policy aides to Obama say his is a ''a stand of principle,'' rather than a promise to meet with anybody under any circumstances. The Clinton camp attributes Obama's stand to lack of experience: Meeting adversaries without an agenda exposes you to be used by them for their own propaganda purposes, they say.
• On Cuba, neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for an immediate relaxation of the U.S. embargo. But the Obama camp says he is proposing more aggressively to reverse President Bush's 2004 restrictions on Cuban exiles' family travel and remittances to the island.
The Clinton camp says that Sen. Clinton, too, favors a relaxation of travel and remittances restrictions, and points out that in 2004 Obama supported lifting the U.S. embargo.
• On immigration, Obama aides say he was more active than Clinton in pushing for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill that failed to pass in Congress last year, and that would have provided a path to legalization to millions of undocumented workers.
And while Clinton opposes giving driver's licenses to undocumented residents, Obama has said that's better than risking road accidents by untrained drivers. The Clinton camp pooh-poohs the first allegation, and admits the second one.
• On trade, Obama and Clinton oppose a pending free-trade deal with Colombia. They are also criticizing the 1994 free-trade agreement with Mexico, and are calling for its revision."(...)
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