Arturo Sarukhan, board member of the Inter-American Dialogue and former Mexican ambassador to the United States: “Secretary Blinken’s trip was mostly characterized by the press as an effort to reassert Washington’s commitment to the region and meet with three new left-leaning leaders, amid concerns that neglect of the continent has let China make economic inroads. While this at 35,000 feet may be generally true, the real challenge is that the Biden administration has struggled to find partners to work with and devise policies that will gain traction as it attempts to re-engage after four years of generalized indifference from the previous administration, beyond the politically expedient pimping of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba in Florida ahead of the 2020 elections. The two diplomatic giants in Latin America—Mexico and Brazil—have been AWOL, with both countries punching well below their weight when it comes to regional and global affairs and with Mexico resorting to diplomatic malfeasance and nostalgia as a policy paradigm. Both governments clearly and overtly bet on Trump, and now on a Trump-infused GOP making electoral inroads. Several other governments, with their eyes fixed on the uncertainty of…”