No major diplomatic or economic progress from Obama's South America trip thus far

No new Latin trade treaties emerged, and pending treaties with Panama and Colombia — countries Obama skipped this time around — are sidetracked in Washington, forestalling any new Latin trade deals…

Yet despite the focus on U.S.-Latin relations, Obama has repeatedly faced questions about Libya, and the lack of substantive Latin American news has led even local reporters to essentially ask, “Where’s the beef?”

“Obama launches a new deal with Latin America, without announcing specific plans,” read a front-page headline in La Tercera, one of Chile’s largest newspapers. “Despite expectations, the U.S. president did not elaborate on the new deal with the region,” the paper continued, and Chile’s dominant political parties “regretted the absence of specifics.”