As much of the U.S. foreign policy lays in waste after nearly a decade of Bush administration policies, the U.S. relationship with Latin America is no exception.  

In a piece for the Council of the Americas, former President of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, laid out a plan for the new Obama administration to re-establish the US./Latin American relationship through partical proposals that take into account the many common issues in this relationship.  

Although many of these ideas are straigtforward many are new for people, who have not paid much attention U.S. policy in its own neighborhood.