Why is the USA losing it's influence in South America?

Question

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Answer 1

I don't know, can it be due to predatory economic policies?
Can it be because of a history of using covery CIA missions to destabilize governents and our support of right wing dictators ?
Can it be because of our own political ineptitude and near sighted foreign policies? Can it be becasue of the way we exploit the natural resources of countries that have corrupt governments ?
Losing ? Maybe that is too optimistic an assessment.

Answer 2

"Dear friends:

I saw with my own eyes, a day like today but exactly 15 years ago, the 27 of February 1989, when an intense day of protest broke out on the streets of Caracas against the neo-liberal package of the International Monetary Fund and ended in a real massacre known as “The Caracazo”.

The neo-liberal model promised Latin Americans greater economic growth, but during the neo-liberal years growth has not even reached half the growth achieved in the 1945-1975 period with different politics.

The model recommended the most strict financial liberalization and exchange freedom to achieve a greater influx of foreign capitals and greater stability. But in neo-liberal years the financial crises have been more intense and frequent than ever before, the external regional debts non-existent at the end of the Second World War amounts today to 750 billion dollars, the per capita highest debt in the world and in several countries is equal to more than half the GDP. Only between 1990 and the year 2002, Latin America made external debt payments amounting to 1 trillion 528 billions of dollars, which duplicates the amount of the current debt and represented an annual average payment of 118 billions. That is, we pay the debt every 6.3 years, but this evil burden continues to be there, unchanging and inextinguishable.

¡¡It is a never-ending debt!! "

Answer 3

Perhaps the plot to over thorw Chavez and the long history of America's intervention into the internal affairs of SOuth America has spawned an anti American movement there? Consider how many regimes we have either put in or assinated out down there, or othrewise operated behind the scenes, is it any wonder?

Answer 4

In a nutshell it's because George W. Bush, with his shortsighted ways, occupies the Oval Office. Do some research on Bush's South American policies and you'll find out why.

Answer 5

south America is no longer run by US appointed dictators, it is largely democratic now. Therefore the leaders of these nations have to do the will of their people

Answer 6

Probably has something to do with all the death squads we trained down there. Just a thought...

Answer 7

Americans are not allowing much mexicans to cross the border i guess