Even before President George W. Bush set out for his four-day visit to Latin America, a predictable game of rhetorical ping-pong began. In a speech to the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week, Mr Bush pledged to “complete the revolution” for social justice begun by Simon Bolívar.
Comparing the South American liberator to George Washington, Mr Bush said: “Neither Washington nor Bolívar was destined to have children of their own, so that we Americans might call ourselves their children.”
