Trump’s advisers will be “yes men”

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If Donald Trump becomes the next U.S. president, he will have a hard time assembling a team of experienced foreign policy advisers, especially when it comes to Latin American experts: Key Republican specialists in the region are running away from him as fast as they can.

That’s the impression I got when I talked with several former Latin America policy makers who served in recent Republican administrations. Several of them told me they couldn’t work for somebody who has insulted Mexico and Latinos, and who doesn’t listen.

Take the case of Roger Noriega, the former head of the State Department’s Latin American department in the George W. Bush administration. He is a conservative Republican and foreign policy hawk who has served in every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan’s.

I recently ran into Noriega and asked him whether he plans to join the Trump bandwagon, He looked at me as if I had insulted him and said, “No way!” What’s more, he said that — while he won’t vote for Hillary Clinton — he won’t vote for Trump either.

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