Refueling U.S. Foreign Policy

PRESIDENT LULA’s successful visit to Camp David on Saturday, March 31, bolstered the Bush administration’s new diplomatic stratgey towards Latin America. Spearheaded by a hemispheric initiative to reduce oil-dependency, the Brazilian president’s visit may also prove helpful in reviving the stagnated Doha Round negotiations on world trade, as well as in generating joint U.S.-Brazilian efforts to fight malaria and HIV/AIDS in Portuguese-speaking African countries.