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Great challenges for President-elect Obama
06/11/2008 By Robert Matthews
The same nation that voted for and then reelected George W. Bush has just convincingly repudiated those elections.
A majority of its citizens just chose as president a relatively progressive Democrat who in character, style, personality and political vision is practically the obverse of the current occupant of the White House.
But as the world now knows, the true historic impact of 4 November 2008 is that the US has, rather astonishingly, elected its first African-American president.
This article was originally published in Spanish in the newspaper “El Mundo” on 6 November 2008. (See spanish version)
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Bio author: Robert Matthews
Robert Matthews, Associate Fellow of FRIDE, holds a Ph.D in Latin American history from New York University, where he was a teacher at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. For twenty years was a collaborator with the Peace Research Center - Centro de Investigación para la Paz (CIP) - in Madrid, specializing in United States foreign policy.
