Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

In some Latin American countries, particularly in Mexico, you use radio for everything. You don't have cable, you don't even have televisions. So your life is around the radio for information, entertainment, news. When you come here, you still listen to the radio.

There are so many opportunities here that don't exist in Latin American.