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Jim Himes: “Latin America has made tremendous progress since I was a…”

Featuring: Jim Himes, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 26:13

He hasn't turned his peacemaking attention to Latin America all that much. But, you know, it just, it's, it's sad to see because if, you know, if you really expand the aperture, Latin America has made tremendous progress since I was a little kid there. right. I mean, in the 60s, pretty much every country there was an autocracy and backward and everything. And now almost every country down there, Venezuela accepted and some other questionable characters are democracies. (26:13–26:16)

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Asserts progress in Latin America over recent decades.

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