2008/09/01 by Bevan Sewell · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #International Relations in Latin America #Presidency #Administration (probate law) #Latin Americans #George (robot) #Political science #Public administration #Law #Politics #History
paper · doi:10.1179/147757008x330212
published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal 6(3), 295-312 (Taylor & Francis)
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Accompanied by intense media interest, President George W. Bush visited Latin America in March 2007. The trip, it seemed, was a rather obvious attempt to try and improve inter-American relations by demonstrating that the US did care about is neighbours to the South; to counter the seemingly endless bad press and repair some of the damage done to the American brand by Bush's policies and the influence of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez. As this article will demonstrate, though, this was reminiscent of another era: that of the 1950s and the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Throughout his eight years in office, Eisenhower would consistently use public relations operations as a way of improving inter-American relations. However, the intense problems that this eventually brought about suggest that the present administration may have been misguided in its attempts to follow a similar path to its Republican predecessor's.