Wolf Grabendorff – Obama`s Latin American Excursion: Coping with the past and praising the future

President Obama had few choices where to go in his probably last visit to Latin America, though a quick trip to Colombia, if and when the peace agreement will finally be signed, could still be in the cards. Most countries in the region had to be excluded from any politically successful itinerary because of internal turmoil or the lack of international projection of a visit there. The final choice of combining Cuba and Argentina did make sense in the context of intending “historical visits”.