4 Quotes by Nicolas Shumway

Rice going, that's a step up from what the U.S. has been doing for Latin America recently. I think that's an important gesture.

What I'm hoping is the U.S. will listen to him and try and hear his concerns and not just try to impose a policy on Bolivia unilaterally.

Keeping those two segments of the country from fragmenting is not going to be an easy task. He will have to throw concessions to both sides. He cannot rigidly be on the side of one or the other.

I would hope that Morales' position would lead to the U.S. taking a more realistic policy because if there's one thing we've learnt in last 20 years is we can't stop the drug trade.