Coming from the Caribbean, I understand my brothers from Latin America, Meno one of the points people often miss about Latin America is the fact that it has a strong colonial past that exploited the people. That's what Simon Bolivar fought and it is that same philosophy most build their government around, trying take care of their people and ensure that this exploitation never shows it head again. The reality of the philosophy haven't gone well with Washington that's why regime change policy has been so vibrant in Latin America. The Americans come an see fertile land and lots of resources and the possibility of making a killing, thinking like a capitalist, its a farm to be taken over. You get the picture clearer when you study Castro in Cuba and Chavez in Venezuela. The idea is never about money, its about ensuring that my people isn't exploited and the resources belong to them.

Lots of people still don't realize why Chavez choose Maduro, you know how much companies try to buy him out, you know how much money was thrown at him. In fact, one of the Oil executive call him an idiot but you need to understand that these people aren't ideological and this neo-liberal path mix with American interest isn't going to work because that part of history has already been defeated.

Let me give you my take, capitalism is good because it can harness that drive of human ambition but it at times lacks the touch of heart. America is actually decaying, not because there isn't enough money to get by but its people don't understand their system and looks at other country and wonder why can't the government take care of this basic need. Well the answer is obvious to me but its not obvious to them, THE NOT HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS.

The long game really, Latin America would be fine, its rich enough to run a socialism if they choose that part but a country like America can't that, its already 22 trillion in debt and it needs that human drive to continue to create businesses and take risk to add to GDP to keep the engine going. I wish American foreign policy would give other countries the time to grow and mature, it took them over 200 years to mature and currently its manifestation at the very top is exporting a kind of ideology that can take us back into the stone age. When you see the attack on immigrants, you realize the system itself does not know itself, that's what built it. Enough said but the right vs left would spin it and say well its really "legal immigration" and then I laugh out loud and ask them to look at the tech companies and S&P 500 companies, go ask their parents if they up to this day has legal papers, some probably just manage to slip in. Probably type to much but Mujica talk here on a level few would understand because it of depth and context