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The rise of Daniel Ortega is seen as a victory for Venezuelan leader and American antagonist Hugo Chavez. The question that immediately arises is - has the threat that Chavez poses to American interests grown bigger? How will this new Leftist alliance in Latin America impact U.S. business and foreign policy?
It looks there is no stop to the growing wave that is rising in the Latin and very likely it might spread throughout the region.
What's responsible for this?
United State traditionally used Latin American countries as a surrogate to promote its own interests, often at the cost of Latin America's most marginalized citizenry. A growing consciousness among Latin countries has forced them to rise against the American policies leading to interdependence among them.
However, there was a need for expansion of trade in the region. President Bush surely tried to do that, maybe not as aggressively as he could have. Nonetheless, there's one reason...you guessed it right, George W. Bush, a root cause of many problems, created another but this one was inconsonance with his neoconservative foreign policy.
Interestingly, out of the 10 presidential elections held in Latin America since December 2005, six displayed a common feature: the strong support for candidates whose discourse was, if not belligerently anti-US, at least averse to many of Washington's regional policies. In four of the six cases, the anti-US candidate won; in the other two they lost narrowly.
As in other parts of the world, this deterioration is partially attributable to widespread opposition to U.S. foreign policy, specifically the war in Iraq. However, the roots of Latin America's unease go far deeper. Ultimately, we can best understand the deterioration of U.S. - Latin relations as a result of Chavez's rejection of the long-standing status quo that confirms U.S. dominance in Latin America. As for Chavez, oil isn't just energy, it's a revolutionary weapon to be used to counter U.S. influence and build what he calls Socialism for the new millennium.
