SANTIAGO, Chile – Reaching out to a vast but overshadowed region, President Barack Obama called Latin America a rising giant in the world that must live up to greater responsibilities and speak up for those whose rights are crushed. Firming up his “new era of partnership” with the peoples of South and Central America, Obama made his broadest appeal yet from Chile, which shed years of dictatorship not long ago to become a democracy of growing influence. Obama came here determined to draw attention to Latin America as a model of change for a whole swath of the Arab world in violent unrest. Yet his message of peace was again clouded by the war he was overseeing from abroad. The…
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