the US empire is reasserting its control over latin america because of brics and it will work.
I don’t know that it will. The key weapon the US used against Latin America before was economic warfare. Now that an alternate economic bloc exists, it’s going to be much harder to subjugate Latin America, and the US simply does not have the means to do this through military force.
mexico is keeping that alternative economic bloc at arms length to avoid incurring the wrath of the us like venezuela did and the likes of el salvador, columbia, bolivia and peru are welcoming us military intervention like the austrians did for the nazis in 1939.
argentina is already in the bloc and they’re clawing of every legal avenue to extricate itself and brazil doesn’t have the clout to influence the rest of latin america like mexico or argentina or columbia can.
I mean we’ll see what happens, but personally I cannot imagine that the US has the capacity to dominate Latin America right now. It’s also wroth keeping in mind that the US itself is on a brink of an economic collapse at this point.
that’s why they’re welcoming american intervention; their economies are tied to the us and the neoliberal gov’ts that the us imposed onto them are reaching out for the us as a bull work to prevent them from losing their grasp entirely.
if china lets venezuela fall into the us’ hands like the soviet union let cuba go; then brics’ gains in the americas will be reversed and the time frame will fit in before the us declines enough to prevent it.
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.
It all comes down to economics in the end. All these governments have to have at least some level of legitimacy to stay in power, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate then we’ll see more and more of what’s happening in Argentina and Chile with growing public unrest and political instability. Meanwhile, the US ability to provide military strength has also been greatly diminished over the past three years. The US is literally not able to keep up with military production to shore up its proxy war in Ukraine. On top of that, they’re propping up Israel, and attempting to confront China. The empire is spread very thin right now.
