Diplomacia y desarrollo con el embajador Mark Green en Tres Respuestas con Iván Duque

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El embajador Mark Green, director ejecutivo del Woodrow Wilson Center, se une a Iván Duque en Washington, D.C. para explorar las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y África. La conversación destaca las lecciones de las políticas estadounidenses que pueden ayudar a otras naciones y se extiende a las cuestiones migratorias en América Latina, abogando por soluciones bipartidistas y el papel del comercio en el desarrollo.

Citas selectas de Amb. Green

"I'm not saying in the US we have all the answers.  What I am saying is we've probably made all the mistakes in our history.  And as our friend, you don't have to make the mistakes that we've made.  This is what we've learned the hard way: that elections matter, that responsive governance matters...you can stand on our shoulders; in fact, you can leap-frog us in responsive governance."

"The key is that, in our democracy work [in Africa], we really need to go down to community level and village level, and help to strengthen those institutions that listen to the voices particularly of young people because it is such a young continent.  Secondly, we shouldn't use the term democracy as a club to beat people over the head.  We need to do a better job of defining what it is that we mean.  What we really mean is citizen-centered, citizen-responsive governance and institutions.  We are looking to help foster institutions that listen to people and help them meet their needs.  When you talk about it in those terms, everybody nods their head and says 'Yeah, that's exactly what it is that we want.'"

"You can create as many barriers as you want to migration; it's still going to keep going as long as people are being victimizing by tyrants, losing economic opportunity, having gangs and particularly narco gangs around them. Of course they're going to flee...it's recognizing that, and looking for ways to unlock the potential these people have in their hearts and in their minds."

"I don't like issues of humanity being turned into political clubs, to beat each other over the head.  This is about the future.  This is about who we are and what it is that we stand for."