Is the Council on Foreign Relations something I frequently peruse? No. Would I be sufficiently familiar with it to recognize that an author of an article posted on it's website is not a frequent contributor? No.

However, among other things, the Council on Foreign Relations has called for a unified government of Canada, Mexico and the United States with appointed leaders of the continent wide leadership council. (Lou Dobbs CNN, June 9, 2005)

Not somebody for whom I'm going to sacrifice a great deal of time listening to, as I tend to actually believe in the principal of national sovereignty.

That being said, I still stand behind my critique: that the article you posted is written from a point of view that focuses solely on US-Latin American relations and fails to place them into the perspective of other responsibilities the US has around the globe. It also fails to even briefly touch on what I would consider to be the defining issue in US-Latin American relations, namely the traffic of illegal narcotics and the USA's on-again/off-again war on drugs.