Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State in President Bill Clinton’s Democratic administration posed a pertinent question to President George W Bush on Thursday 5th January. According to the New York Times, Ms Albright, asked the President whether his foreign policy team with the Iraq war “taking up all their energy” hadn’t let US relations with Latin America suffer by “benign neglect”. The reference to Latin America is relevant to the Caribbean because the two areas are linked both by international organisations and the US State Department. In reality, Latin America and the English-speaking Caribbean are very different. They are different in size of territory and population, in culture, in language, in history and even in their foreign policy objectives in the global community. But, the truth is that Ms Albright is right, the Bush administration has neglected both Latin American and the Caribbean at a high political level. More