00714nam a2200085Ia 4500100002300000245003900023260000900062520053900071583001800610  aHsiang, Antonio C.  aBush's policy toward Latin America  c2003  aIndicates that the Bush administration has focused its Latin American policy on three goals that look past the current financial woes afflicting the southern common market, Mercosur.  Sees these goals as, consolidating the region as a strategic partner, accommodating challenges from the left, and alleviating nacroterrorism problems.  Analyzes the administration's politics in these three basic areas as they have been affected by the 9/11/01 attacks on America and  how they are likely to be perceived as the war on terror proceeds.  c3/12/03kJOYD