McCain vs. Obama on Latin America? Not much difference

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Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain go head to head in this BBC piece on their policy differences over Latin America this morning.

But other than a difference in tone and Obama’s opposition to free trade, there’s not much difference between their approaches to the region, writes Lourdes Heredia.

Both McCain and Obama support United States interventions in the fight against drug trafficking throughout Latin America, with both candidates behind Plan Colombia and the recently approved Merida Initiative.

Obama -- who apparently has never set foot in Latin America -- has a higher profile here because he is perceived as representing a fresh start for a region in which the Bush administration is unpopular.

Read the rest of the BBC’s assessment of the rivals here...

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City