We share the levels of concerned expressed in your article and believe that the Latin american Countries are as much to blame as the USA. There is not a unified position to deal with the USA. The segregated interests of the various potentially significant countries, like, Brazil, Mexico and Chile, are sufficient enough to put aside the common objective to deal as a common front. Latin American countries’ politicians do not have the will to take the strengths of its people and the resources of their countries to a plataform that is significant enough for the USA politians to notice. We will always be behind and more so if you add to the equation the population and economic statistics we have inherited.