Latin America breaks away from the tutelage of the US, which has increasing difficulties in managing itself

The presence of the United States, the former great dominating power in Latin America, is constantly shrinking and disappearing

After World War II, the US became the main power, both from a military, economic and political point of view.

In July 1944, when the Second World War was practically defined, a Monetary and Financial Conference was held with the assistance of 730 delegates from the 44 allied nations in the conflict at the Mount Washington Hotel, located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, seeking regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of the War.

These were the bases for the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The following year, once the war was over, the United Nations Organization was founded, initially made up of 51 founding member states, now there are 193.

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as the UN itself established their headquarters in the United States where they still are.

The World Bank is currently headquartered at 1818 H Street NW. Washington, DC, US and is made up of 189 countries.

For its part, the IMF has its headquarters at 720 19th Street, NW, in Washington, DC and has 190 member states.

Similarly, the UN, founded on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, California, established its headquarters at 760 United Nations Plaza, Manhattan, New York City. Originally there were 51 Member States in 1945 today there are 193

The World Bank Group or World Bank Group, which was created in 1944 as part of the Bretton Woods Agreements, also has its headquarters in the city of Washington at 1818 H Street NW in the US capital. It is made up of 189 countries.

For their part, at the regional level and shortly after the end of the War, in 1948, the countries of the American continent also agreed to establish an international organization. This was finalized at a meeting in Bogotá, where the Organization of American States was created. As it could not be otherwise, they also established the headquarters in Washington.

on 17th Street corner Constitution Ave of that city.

It is currently made up of 35 member states.

In addition to the OAS, on April 8, 1959, the Inter-American Development Bank was created and, of course, its headquarters were located at 1300 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The IDB currently has 48 members.

All these institutions that in a certain way shaped and shape a leadership spectrum at the highest economic and political level of a global and continental character. They are all located in the US and of course that way the US is in the best position to control them.

And we must insist that it is in these institutions that strategies, incentives and limits are defined for everyone, and

much more particularly for the entire American continent.

Due to this historical and circumstantial context, the control that the US exercised and to a certain extent still exercises over all the states of Latin America was almost total, leaving no room for the governments of the area to make their own decisions.

100 years before they had taken over half of Mexico, from 1898 they occupied Cuba for more than two decades, Haiti was also occupied from 1915 to 1934, the occupation in the Dominican Republic lasted 8 years, from 1916 to 1924 and Puerto Rico that was occupied in 1898 and whose occupation still continues 125 years later,

In 1903 the US promoted the separation of Panama from Colombia in order to build the interoceanic canal including a territorial strip on both sides of it.

In that period, they defined and even directly designated most of the governments of Mesoamerica, bloodily opposing the revolutionary attempts that occurred. In that period including the Mexican revolution of the decade of 1910-20, and the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua from 1927 to 1933.

With the creation of the OAS, US policies in relation to Latin America did not change, OAS officials acted as if they occupied a lower level secretariat in the US government itself.

In 1954 the US had overthrown the progressive Jacobo Arbenz government in Guatemala and a few years later, in 1961, they tried to carry out a coup in Cuba where a revolutionary government led by Fidel Castro had been established since 1959, failing completely.

The attempts continued in the following years, they invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965 against another government that was not to their liking, they started a war to overthrow a revolutionary government in Nicaragua in 1979 to 1990 which they only partially succeeded in, they also invaded the small island Grenada in 1983 to displace a government that made them uncomfortable, and in 1989 they invaded Panama kidnapping its president. The president of Panama named Manuel Noriega was taken to the US to stand trial and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, which was later reduced to 20. He was finally extradited to France and Panama, continuing in prison until his death in 2017. ,

Everything seemed to indicate that this almost total US domination over Latin America would continue indefinitely. But things have been gradually changing.

Incredibly, the government of the Cuban revolution has been resisting sanctions and sabotage for 63 years, in 1998 there was a change of government after which Hugo Chavez took office, who was a president clearly opposed to the interests of the United States in Venezuela and his successor Nicolás Maduro also it resists despite sabotage and sanctions and at the same time Nicaragua was returning to its revolutionary Sandinista roots.

To continue weakening US control in recent years, the left recently won several elections, first in Mexico with López Obrador, also in Bolivia, with Evo Morales and Luis Arce, then in Argentina with Alberto Fernández, and more recently in Chile with Gabriel Boris, in Peru with Pedro Castillo and in Honduras with Xiomara Castro.

At this time, it is thought that Brazil and Colombia are about to change their governments, electing leaders with clear progressive orientations who could continue to expand this trend.

Political evolution does not seem to stop, rather it accelerates. No Latin American country followed the US and Europe in sanctions against Russia, and now, recently, most Latin American states did not attend or were reluctant at the continental Summit organized by the US in Los Angeles.

It seems that the influence of the United States in the Latin American subcontinent is weakening, and that there is no longer that all-powerful economic and political influence that was the rule in the past.

I don't know if this situation reflects the empowerment of Latin American countries or the accelerated weakening of North American power. Maybe both.

We do not know what will happen in the next few years, but we will probably witness a continuation of these processes and perhaps, hopefully, we will witness a radical and historical insubordination of the South Americans who may finally be able to become masters of their own destinations.