As President-elect Obama prepares to take office, our neighbors to the south have a few suggestions for the incoming president. A new report from the Brookings Institution documents several of them: expanding free trade, changing the rhetoric on the war on drugs, even normalizing relations with Cuba. The director of the Latin America Institute at Brookings joins the Takeaway to discuss the possibility of new approaches to Latin American relations.
"The commission is recommending that the State Department takes Cuba off the 'state sponsors of terrorism' list."
— Mauricio Cardenas on a new report from The Brookings Institution
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