Polls indicate that Barack Obama has a lead over John McCain among Latino voters, perhaps a substantial one.
But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is still formulating his positions on a number of key issues of particular interest to Latinos and Latin Americans.
Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer is anticipating a "shift to the center" in the coming weeks in Barack Obama's "Latin American rhetoric, including a less strident opposition to the Mexico and Colombia free trade agreements, and a more persistent criticism of Cuba and Venezuela's authoritarian regimes."
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