“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.
Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.
Some still look at Latin America through old stereotypes.
But I see a hemisphere of 500 million people, striving with the dream of a better life. A dream of free markets and free people, in a hemisphere free from war and tyranny. That dream has sometimes been frustrated — but it must never be abandoned”.
George W. Bush [1]
on Latin America
Miami, Florida 2000 [2]