AS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

lEADERS MUNDIALES sometidos a preguntas que contestaron, entre ellos, Presidente
Bachelet; (textualmente), hoy

MICHELLE BACHELET, the president of Chile
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American foreign policy is now inextricably tied to the financial situation in the United States and to the image this crisis gives the country in the eyes of the world. How, for example, will this financial tsunami change your Iraq policy and its timetable? How will you manage both the horribly high cost of rescuing the banking system and the no less exorbitant cost of the American military presence in Baghdad? What will you say to all those countries the United States has so long lectured on the right way to govern their economies and that now see that America has refused its own medicine? The rest of the world is absorbing America’s deficits. How do you plan to convince them to continue doing so as though nothing has happened? Has the place of America in the world changed in your view? Can its role be the same? Will the America you are going to lead still be the great power it was before last week?

posted by victor @ Friday, September 26, 2008