Heine Comments on CODEL Visit to Latin America
On August 11, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in a POLITICO article on the congressional delegation (CODEL) of progressives visiting Latin America in the second week of August.
The CODEL is set to meet with the leaders of Chile, Colombia, and Brazil to discuss political struggles across the Western hemisphere, especially in the wake of conservative backlash to democratization and democracies globally. Heine was hopeful that the CODEL could also use this visit as an opportunity to re-frame the United States‘ rhetoric on the economic and diplomatic relationships between China and Latin American states.
Heine argued that “this whole thing of seeing Latin America just as a stage of great power competition, and how the United States can exclude China, has been very detrimental to the image of the United States in the region. This congressional delegation can help to shift, a bit, that debate.”
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Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007), and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School faculty profile.