http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/12/latin-america%e2%80%99s-twenty-first-century-capitalism-and-the-us-empire/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Wed, 08 May 2013 02:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/12/latin-america%e2%80%99s-twenty-first-century-capitalism-and-the-us-empire/#comment-77615 MichaelKenny Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:31:50 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=25920#comment-77615 In the 1920s, there was a saying: “poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the Unuted States”. It could nowadays be said: “lucky Latin America, so close to the United States but so far from Israel”. The US doesn’t have a foreign policy. Israel has a foreign policy of which the US is the principal instrument. Latin America, no more, indeed, than North Korea, doesn’t affect Israel one way or the other. That, I think, is why Latin America has “got away with it”. The US undoubtedly still has the power to undermine Latin America, but to do so, it would have to divert resources away from the protection of Israel’s interests, essentially, the subjugation of Israel’s near abroad and the Europe that sits astride the most direct route between Israel and its American bully. It doesn’t have the power to do both and we all know who comes first! “Oh God, send war in our time”, said a 19th century Irish nationalist. With the American dinosaur bogged down in two unwinnable wars, Latin America has had an opportunity to create facts on the ground which cannot be undone.

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