POLITICS-U.S.: VOTERS SEE BUSH AS OUT OF TOUCH ON LATIN AMERICA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The policies of the George W. Bush administration lag public opinion on a host of issues relating to Latin America, according to a new poll of likely voters across the U.S. The poll, released Friday by Zogby International, polled more than 2,700 people and found that most of them are in favor of revising policies toward Cuba and think the "war on drugs" is a failing effort. Other questions found that likely voters are split on a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented migrants in the U.S., and pluralities support revising the North American Free Trade Agreement, attaching human rights conditions to the proposed U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, and lowering tariffs on imported ethanol fuel from Brazil. "The poll results indicate that American public opinion is far... [read full story]