India and Latin America: When a Rising Power and an Emergent Growth Pole Engage

... to desist from relegating Foreign Minister visits to the region to the level of the Junior Minister in the External Affairs Ministry, a diminishment going beyond protocoled matters, to reflect strategic flippancy, one that has not gone down well with Latin American counterparts, already bewildered, by the failure of the Modi government to follow through on his predecessor’s assured commitment to expand the incidence of Indian Ambassadorial missions to LATAM countries. President Ram Nath Kovind’s and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu’s respective recent-year calls on Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Guyana, Suriname, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, and Costa Rica have headlined the incumbent Indian government’s ...