Russia Finds Banana Republics More Attractive

But here is a legitimate question: what to do with the dependency on the US? In particular, during his visit to Russia, Guatemala’s President expressed his desire to refocus his trade connections to Russia. He acknowledged that their cooperation with the US, Mexico and in a lesser extent, Europe, was a historic matter. Today, there is a strong tendency in the region toward liberation from one-sided dependency from the US.

This is the same reason the development of relations with local elite seems to be very important. Salvador President Funes is the most popular president of the western hemisphere who is more popular than Obama. He is a former TV journalist who became popular due to exposure of corruption and social inequality. Now he declared a merciless war on local rich who evade taxes. Additionally, he restored diplomatic relations with Cuba destroyed 50 years ago. This act was a challenge to once popular opinion that Salvador remained a US satellite in all respects. Funes is not alone in this desire and Guatemala’s Colom and Nicaraguan Ortega share his position.

Sergey Balmasov
Pravda.Ru

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