But the elephant in the room here is that America’s own economy is on life support right now. This whole economic integration with the US that you’re talking about is predicated on the US boosting Latin American economies. What happens when the US has a 2008 style crash, which seems like the most likely scenario in the near future?
it’s not their economies that they’re trying to shore up (although there’s no doubt they want that as well); it’s their control of their nations that matter most to them and the us still has the military strength to do so.
But the elephant in the room here is that America’s own economy is on life support right now. This whole economic integration with the US that you’re talking about is predicated on the US boosting Latin American economies. What happens when the US has a 2008 style crash, which seems like the most likely scenario in the near future?
it’s not their economies that they’re trying to shore up (although there’s no doubt they want that as well); it’s their control of their nations that matter most to them and the us still has the military strength to do so.