Roger Noriega
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"Roger Francisco Noriega" is a Mexico/Mexican-United States/American, visiting fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. He has served as a U.S. diplomat and policy maker, specializing in Western Hemisphere Affairs.

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The United States has long stood for expansion of global trade and consolidating democracy.

He's regarded as a reasonable guy and I think he is prepared to reach across to the opposition.

There would be a resignation to do business. I think we'd have normal relations, certainly nothing particularly warm.

If there were this kind of judicial mugging of president Bolanos I think that the (inter-American) community would respond very, very forcibly.

It's his relationship with Aristide that is going to prove to be the trickiest one. He can treat Aristide's return as a priority or the recovering of the country as a priority, but he cannot do both.

There'll be a will in the inter-American community to isolate Nicaragua politically and economically if there were this sort of power grab against the elected president of the country by elements of Nicaragua that are behaving very, very irresponsibly, that have put the personal interests of a couple of leaders ahead of the national interest.

We urge [the peacekeepers] to seize the initiative, respond to this wave of criminality and be more proactive to dissuade violence.

China's intensified interest in the Western Hemisphere does not imply a lack of focus by the United States.

It is clear that [the election authorities] have to undertake some practical steps in an urgent way to organize the way they work and make decisions to [register] a preponderance of the voters by mid-August.