WASHINGTON _ The White House will no longer appease "dictators and despots" in Latin America, national security adviser John Bolton said in a Miami speech that welcomed new right-leaning leaders and put three leftist governments on notice.
Referring to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as the "troika of tyranny," Bolton blamed them for causing "immense" human suffering and regional instability in the countries, and fostering communism in the region.
He called the leaders of those countries "clowns" and said the United States "looks forward to watching" their governments fall.
