In an almost offhand remark during a speech at the Organization of American States in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that one of the pillars of American foreign policy for the past 190 years — the Monroe Doctrine — was obsolete. His audience, consisting of representatives of OAS member states; that is, all the independent countries of the Western Hemisphere except for Cuba, applauded.
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