The Pentagon's New Plan to Confront Latin America's Pink Tide
Panetta Down South

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/19/the-pentagons-new-plan-to-confront-latin-americas-pink-tide/
Date Written:  2012-10-19
Publisher:  Counter Punch
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14635

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Uruguay recently, where he spoke of the need to strengthen the southern hemisphere’s police forces. This proposed policy has a precedent, almost unknown in this country, but potentially indicative of what awaits Latin American governments willing to cooperate with their northern neighbor’s defense establishment.