He then said the United States had to take a new, comprehensive approach to relations with all of Central American and the Caribbean.
In a statement headlined "Charting a New Course on Cuba" the White House recently acknowledged its "failed approach" to relations with the country.
"Venezuela's populist president, Hugo Chávez, has taken a hostile approach to relations with the United States in recent years," wrote Richard F. Grimmett, a specialist in national defense at the Congressional Research Service.
Gilliam, who worked with the late Heath Ledger on Parnassus, offers the following tongue-in-cheek insight into his own approach to relations on the film set.
The Eurasion Union, for its part, involving closer ties with Kazakhstan and Belarus, is a sensible approach to relations with close neighbours but also has its limits.
The opposition had portrayed itself until now as the party of stability, and had warned that President Chen's sometimes confrontational approach to relations with mainland China risked war.
But President Chen Shui-bian, who has taken a confrontational approach to relations with the mainland, was injured in a mysterious shooting on Friday afternoon, 15 minutes after the close of trading here.
And Bashiru Ally, of the University of Dar es Salaam, called for a new approach to relations between China and Tanzania, "given that they are currently based on resources," the newspaper wrote.
Despite his cautious approach to relations with China, the Dalai Lama is regularly condemned by Chinese officials who accuse him of being a "splittist" with the desire of breaking Tibet away.
