In a news conference today on CSPAN, State Department spokesman Arturo Valenzuela gave a news conference in advance of Hillary Clinton's "We Hate America As Much as You Do" tour of South America.
His lead-off comment was how wonderful it was that Uruguay had a socialist government, and how that made these "exciting times." Uruguay, of course, is the most recent addition to the Marxist countries in South America which have rebuked the United States and aligned themselves closely with Cuba and Venezuela's Hugo "I Smell Sulfur" Chavez.
Valenzuela briefly touched on the "common history" of the U.S. and South America: Invasion of "indigenous societies" and occupation by slave monger honkey Euros, followed eventually by present day "leftist" regimes focused on "social justice."
Since socialists took power, Uruguay has been a staunch anti-American voice, and loud defender of Castro and Chavez. Previously a military ally, the Marxist regimes have re-aligned themselves to Cuba and Chavez, and is progressively moving toward nationalizing American companies and has engaged in systematic harassment of Americans.
While the government in Montevideo organizes regular anti-American protests which has prompted the State Department to issue travel warnings, that same State Department issues slobbering praise and undisguised puppy-love for the regime. When asked about the region's re-alignment away from the U.S., the growing influence of Iran, Cuba, Russia, and China, Valenzuela said, "It's an engagement with the world which we welcome."
The Obama administration "welcomes" the fact that the United States is blocked out of meaningul relations with South America since Obama took office, and their re-alignment to Marxist and neo-Marxist regimes. The reason? "We share the same goals."
Got that? They are marching hard left and becoming more beligerantly anti-U.S., and Obama's policy is that "e share the same goals."