And the country's own judiciary is unlikely to smile on foreign holdouts when the $20 billion in claims they represent is worth about half a year's tax receipts.Markets have proved as sympathetic to Argentina as the courts: once rating agencies were happy to declare the country out of default, lenders snapped up new bonds.
Diplomats noticed that the usually dour Foreign Minister smiled more often and even made a discreet joke.
When selling widgets became more important than shipping weapons in Latin America, American foreign policy smiled on Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
A group of jolly Islamic missionaries, members of the Tablighi Jamaat religious movement, squeezed into a long seat, offering a foreign visitor smiles, a snack and an invitation to convert to Islam.
But the reason is not necessarily a reflection of prejudice: Islamic-motivated terror has compelled a rethinking of everything from airport design to foreign policy; smiling families have not.
He could spend his days touring the country telling his fans what they want to hear, basking in their love, not having to listen to those boring briefings or being forced to sit next to foreign leaders and smile for the cameras.
Maduro, the Foreign Minister, said, smiling, "Let's go confront the Empire".
Mr. Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, emerged smiling from a meeting with six world powers late Thursday afternoon as American and European officials announced that negotiations on "details" would be worked out in Geneva next month.
But being envoy for etiquette, she discovered, entailed a lot more than greeting foreign dignitaries with a smile and advising the president how to address a viscount.
