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Washington's perspective on South America.
Washington cannot allow South America to become increasingly
strong and unified. Washington, then, is caught in a dilemma. This helps explain
its schizoid foreign policy in relation to South America. On the one hand it
does not desire South America to become so weak and divided that it turns into a
chaotic wasteland such as virtually happened in sub-Saharan Africa. South
America would then be of little strategic value to Washington. Consequently
Washington has a vested interest in a relatively prosperous South America that
does not become too prosperous, unified and strong "for its own good". Such a
South America would pose a growing threat to Washington strategically and
commercially. Washington's policy, then, is to support a contradictory economic
and political development in South America. Consequently its prosperity tends to
have an uneven and contradictory character. In this way it develops economically
in a circumscribed way. Washington wants South American development to take a
form that does not lead to an economically independent and united South America.
This is why it engages in policies that prevent unity establishing itself in
South America. This is why is does not encourage and even conspires to undermine
any South American country that begins to assume an independent leadership role
in South America conducive to promoting the independent and unified growth of
South America. Consequently, as is commonly thought, Washington does not
conspire against a more independent minded and dynamic regime merely because it
threatens the commercial interests of American firms there. This undoubtedly
comes into the equation. But it is not necessarily the principal concern.
It conspires against them principally because of their more independent
character. Washington must always seek to remove any conditions conducive to
South America emerging as an economic and political rival to its class
interests.It cannot tolerate the existence of an independent South American
bourgeoisie at its doorstep.
Consequently America seeks to promote and yet retard South
American economic and political development which is why it plays one
regime off against another.
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