Pale Rider
Active member
Remember this, regardless of the type of goverment be it Communist, Marxist, or Democratic or Dictatorship. In Latin America the Goverments are rife with corruption. The investment dollars do not trickle down to the pobres. They stay with the Rico's. So simply investing only shores up corrupt leaders and gives the Marxists a recruitment pool.
Latin America has no easy answer. But ignoring the a possible ChiCom incursion isn't a road to take.
At the Conference of the Americas Hugo and Ortega were all chummy and parroting each other so niether one should be written off.
Agreed - one could look just south of our border and see the corruption in Mexico, and there will not be a easy answer for this part of the world, lets hope that the U.S has a good sound plan to counter it. It will be intersting to see how China will handle this new adventure.