On Hillary's Latin American Agenda

Hillary Clinton to give keynote
speech at Costa Rica event



Hillary Clinton, the United States secretary of state, will be in Costa Rica next week as part of a Latin America tour that also will include Brazil, Chile, Guatemala and Uruguay, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.

Clinton will visit this Central American country, a close U.S. ally, on March 3, where she will be the keynote speaker at the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas Ministerial Meeting. Clinton has said she believes the Pathways initiative, a 14 nation - network to promote the benefits of free trade, will help improve the distribution of economic benefits to women, rural farmers and small businesses, as well as to indigenous and Afro-descendents who have been left on the sidelines of the open market.

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