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LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF HILLARY CLINTON

ing from drug trafficking and the challenges of our border,
an effort begun this week with a meeting between Presi-
dent-elect Obama and President Calderon.
Throughout our hemisphere we have opportunities to
enhance cooperation to meet common economic, security,
and environmental objectives that affect us all. We will
return to a policy of vigorous engagement throughout Latin
America, seeking deeper understanding and broader
engagement with nations from the Caribbean to Central to
South America. Not only do we share common political,
economic, and strategic interests with our friends to the
south, our relationship is also enhanced by many shared
ancestral and cultural legacies. We are looking forward to
working on many issues during the Summit of the Ameri-
cas in April and taking up the president-elect’s call for a new
energy partnership of the Americas built around shared
technology and new investments in renewable energy.
In Africa, the foreign policy objectives of the Obama
administration are rooted in security, political, economic,
and humanitarian interests, including combating al-Qaeda’s
efforts to seek safe havens in failed states in the Horn of
Africa; helping African nations to conserve their natural
resources and reap fair benefits from them; stopping war in
Congo; ending autocracy in Zimbabwe and human devas-
tation in Darfur; supporting African democracies like
South Africa and Ghana (which just had its second change
of power in democratic elections); and working aggres-

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