Talk:United States-Latin American relations

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Contents 1 NPOV, et al 2 Old 3 First sentence 3.1 WP:LEAD 4 Neutrality tag added 5 University Project

[edit] NPOV, et al

Something really ought to be done in regards to the unsourced allegations and conspiracy theories present in the latter half of this article. Can we throw up a neutrality and sources flag? Comrade438 08:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

You may of course put a POV template. But that would require pointing out exactly what parts you disagree with, and which sentences you feel need references. Tazmaniacs 18:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old

This page should probably be moved to United States-Latin American relations, because that's the format most articles about relations between two specific countries or regions are in.--Carabinieri 10:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Agree, the current name is ambiguous.- Jor70 10:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely agree. Bolivian Unicyclist 15:35, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First sentence

I think the first sentence is kind of odd: "The United States has always had a special conception of its relationship with the nations of Latin America." Don't relationships have to be two-way? Or is it all about the US's point of view? Steve Dufour 14:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the relationship does go two ways: the U.S. exploits and Latin America is made to shut up,lest they receive economic and/or diplomatic castigation. The "special" in that intro. must refer to the way the U.S. regularly fucks Latin American countries. But, it's okay, you keep thinking you're #1 (in fact, you're not even in the top ten) and the rest of the world will go on hating you guys because we are all so jealous, right? Yeah, because we want our children to be fat and dumb. Most High Schoolers in the U.S. can't even find Iraq on a map but you'll train them to fire bombs that can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.43.244.202 (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:LEAD

The introduction to this article is in desperate need of attention. Surely there is more to say than "The United States has always had a special conception of its relationship with the nations of Latin America." ;-) The intro should sum up all main points feature in an article. Signature^brendel 01:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality tag added

The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page.(December 2007) Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.

This whole article lacks a neutral POV. It is full of one side ideas and concepts. It should be edited propertly to avoid political comments and opinions and to present facts only. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 20:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

• Fixed --200.126.153.25 22:29, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University Project

Hi my name is Greg Svishchov and I am a student at the University of Toronto. For one of my courses (Latin American History) my final project consists of contributing to existing Wikipedia entries. My research on the topic of the Panama-U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty has been posted on this page. Please be so kind as to not delete this until after the New Year, once my professor has had a chance to grade my work.

I have pasted the following text on this page under the Bilateral Investemnt Treaty section:

The Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) is essentially an agreement between the governments of two countries focusing on the reciprocal encouragement, treatment and protection of mutual investments. It is achieved because of the desire to promote economic cooperation between them by creating favorable conditions for investment by nationals and companies of one country in the territory of the other country. The BIT recognizes that the encouragement and protection under international agreement of such investment will be beneficial to the motivation of individual business initiative and will increase prosperity in both countries

Please do not delte this. Thank You kindly,

Greg

Link to archived version give on user's talk page. --TeaDrinker 03:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)