Dominican Republic cabinet minister killed by close friend: officials

Jun 07, 2022 View Original Article
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    98% Extremely Conservative

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    -24% Somewhat Liberal

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"Law enforcement contacted Cruz while he was still inside the church and he promised to turn himself in without issue if they guaranteed his life would be spared, authorities said."
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-24% Liberal
"Former Sen. Christopher Dodd crisscrossed the region as a special adviser for the summit, persuading far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and hasn't once spoken to Biden, to belatedly confirm his attendance."
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14% Conservative
"Former Sen. Christopher Dodd crisscrossed the region as a special adviser for the summit, persuading far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and hasn't once spoken to Biden, to belatedly confirm his attendance."
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14% Conservative
"Former Sen. Christopher Dodd crisscrossed the region as a special adviser for the summit, persuading far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and hasn't once spoken to Biden, to belatedly confirm his attendance."
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14% Conservative
"The Summit of the Americas was launched by President Bill Clinton as part of an effort to galvanize support for a free trade agreement stretching from Alaska to Argentina."
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12% Conservative
"At the time, the Trump administration was enjoying something of a leadership renaissance in Latin America, albeit among mostly similar-minded conservative governments around the narrow issue of restoring democracy in Venezuela."
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12% Conservative
"The election of Biden, who was Obama's point man for Latin America and had decades of hands-on experience in the region from his time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, set expectations for a relaunch."
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4% Conservative
"The election of Biden, who was Obama's point man for Latin America and had decades of hands-on experience in the region from his time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, set expectations for a relaunch."
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4% Conservative
"Since then, Biden's hallmark policy in the region -- a $4 billion aid package to attack the root causes of migration in Central America -- has stalled in Congress with no apparent effort to revive it."
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4% Conservative
"As a result, the premier forum for regional cooperation has languished, at times turning into a stage for airing historical grievances, like when the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez at the 2009 summit in Trinidad & Tobago gave President Barack Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano's classic tract, The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent."
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2% Conservative
"While the Biden administration insists the president in Los Angeles will outline his vision for a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future for the hemisphere, Castau00f1eda said it's clear from the last-minute wrangling over the guest list that Latin America is not a priority for the U.S. president."
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0% Conservative
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine has also diverted attention from the region, something experts say could come back to bite Biden if rising interest rates in the U.S. trigger a stampede of capital outflows and debt defaults in emerging markets."
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0% Conservative
"Tom Shaon, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs, said for the summit to be successful Biden shouldn't try to lay out a grand American vision for the hemisphere but rather show sensitivity to the region's embrace of other global powers, concerns about gaping inequality and traditional mistrust of the U.S.More than speeches, he will need to listen, Shaon said.___AP writers Matthew Lee in Washington; Daniel Politi in Buenos Aires, Argentina; David Biller in Rio de Janeiro and Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, contributed to this report."
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0% Conservative
"We are isolating ourselves by taking that step, because you've got Mexico, you've got Caribbean countries saying they're not going to come -- which is only going to make Cuba look stronger than us.To bolster turnout, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris worked the phones in recent days, speaking with the leaders of Argentina and Honduras, both of whom initially expressed support for Mexico's boycott."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"We are isolating ourselves by taking that step, because you've got Mexico, you've got Caribbean countries saying they're not going to come -- which is only going to make Cuba look stronger than us.To bolster turnout, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris worked the phones in recent days, speaking with the leaders of Argentina and Honduras, both of whom initially expressed support for Mexico's boycott."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The Biden administration said it would not include autocratic governments that jail opponents and rig elections, pointing to a declaration from the 2001 summit in Quebec City, when the region's governments committed to barring any government that breaks with democratic order from future gatherings."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"The U.S. opening to former Cold War adversary Cuba, which was sealed with Obama's handshake with Raul Castro at the 2015 summit in Panama, lowered some of the ideological tensions."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"But as popular angst spread during the pandemic, the Biden administration was slow to match the vaccine diplomacy of Russia and China, although it did eventually provide 70 million doses to the hemisphere."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Trump didn't even bother to attend the last summit in Peru in 2018 and many predicted there was no future for the regional gathering."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"With so many no-shows, critics say the event risks turning into an embarrassment for President Joe Biden, who has struggled to reassert U.S. leadership in a region where mistrust of the U.S. runs deep and China has been made major inroads the past two decades as the U.S. foreign policy has been dominated by wars in the Middle East and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
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-22% Liberal
"It's a huge missed opportunity, Ben Rhodes, who led the Cuba thaw as deputy national security advisor in the Obama administration, said recently in his Pod Save the World podcast."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The real question is why the Biden administration didn't do its homework, said Jorge Castau00f1eda, a former Mexican foreign minister who now teaches at New York University."
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-26% Liberal
"In response to Trump's pullout, only 17 of the region's 35 heads of state attended."
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-30% Liberal
"Adding to the sense of last minute improvisation, Biden since taking office has reversed many of the Trump-era policies tightening a decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba."
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0% Conservative
"Adding to the sense of last minute improvisation, Biden since taking office has reversed many of the Trump-era policies tightening a decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba."
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0% Conservative
"But that goodwill unraveled as Trump floated the idea of invading Venezuela to remove Nicolas Maduro -- a threat recalling the worst excesses of the Cold War."
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-36% Liberal
"Biden also maintained the Trump-era restrictions on migration, reinforcing the view that it was neglecting its own neighbors."
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0% Conservative
"Biden also maintained the Trump-era restrictions on migration, reinforcing the view that it was neglecting its own neighbors."
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