Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, discuss the future of U.S.-Latin American relations.

Mark Weisbrot - Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research - and Anne Krueger - former World Bank Chief Economist and First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund - discuss the effect that the recession in the United States might have on Latin American economies.

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, spoke on a panel with Greg Craig, a foreign policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama; Nora Lustig, a visiting Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs; and, Mark Schneider, who is Senior Vice President and Special Advisor on Latin America at the International Crisis Group. The discussion was hosted by the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and it centered on the possible directions U.S. policy toward Latin America might take after the Bush Administration.