Abstract
Extra-hemispheric preoccupations have left less room for Latin America in US foreign policy than President George W. Bush would have preferred before the 11 September attacks, but Washington has at least been able over the last three years to advance its support for Colombia’s counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency efforts. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s virulent anti-Americanism, which has led him into dalliances with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel group, as well as with Cuba, has thus been regarded in the dimmest light. In the wider context of Latin America’s relatively gentle leftward political tilt, Washington views Chávez as a potential source and catalyst of more extreme reactions against the traditional hemispheric dominance of the US.
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