Latin America Ignored At Third U.S. Presidential Debate
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices
Moderator Bob Schieffer mentioned the Cuban Missile crisis in passing as he opened the discussion. It was the last time Latin 
America played a major role. In a debate centered on foreign policy, President Barack Obama and his GOP opponent Mitt Romney found ways to mention Detroit and Massachusetts, while completely ignoring Mexico — the country of origin of 60 percent of undocumented workers in the United States, the site of a U.S.-led drug war that has claimed an estimated 60,000 lives, and the ancestral country of some 33 million U.S. Latinos, according to Pew Hispanic Center. Mexico is also the United States’ third largest trade partner, federal data indicates.
While Obama failed to refer to the region a single time…
This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
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