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#NEWWORLDREPORT: CELAC AND TARIFFS.LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

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John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: CELAC AND TARIFFS.LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

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0:26.0

Evan Ellis, professor at the U.S. Army War College,

0:31.5

a Latin American research professor,

0:33.5

and he's here to help me understand

0:35.6

not only the tumult caused by the tariffs, which we know about in these last days,

0:40.3

but also the moving stories in Latin America, where you will recall over these last years,

0:46.7

there was the assumption that there was so-called pink tide, that is, the elections going increasingly each time,

0:54.1

for a left-of-center president.

0:56.4

And now there's confusion about that, not only because of terrorists, but generally speaking,

1:02.9

the region has some successes, Argentina being one of them.

1:06.9

There's been a gathering, most recently, of the Latin American and Caribbean states.

1:11.6

It's called CELAC.

1:13.2

And I note from the headlines that it was not breaking news so much as reasserting certain assumptions.

1:22.9

For example, Brazilian President Lula de Silva, lambasted, quote, arbitrary U.S. import tariffs

1:28.9

at a summit of Latin American leaders that urged the United Front against Donald Trump's

1:34.7

economic measures. That's the three-time elected president of Brazil. But there are a lot of

1:40.9

small states here in Caribbean states. I notice that Diaz Canal, the leader

1:46.5

so-called of the communist dictatorship of Cuba, attended as well. Professor, is there an overall

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