{"id":363621,"date":"2010-02-25T16:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-era-of-us-regional-leadership-is-officially-over-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:59:34","slug":"the-era-of-us-regional-power-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363621","title":{"rendered":"The Era Of US Regional Power Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b86efbe7f8b9ace5dc10000\/latin-america-leaders.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"latin america leaders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/feb\/25\/latin-america-independence\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the  creation of a new regional organisation of 32 Latin American and  Caribbean countries. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/usa\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on United States\">United States<\/a> and  Canada were excluded.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing independence of Latin America  has been one of the most important geopolitical changes over the last  decade, affecting not only the region but the rest of the world as well.  For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-weisbrot\/morgenthaus-axis-debunked_b_283871.html\">Brazil  has publicly supported Iran&#8217;s right to enrich uranium<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-17\/brazil-resists-push-for-tougher-sanctions-on-iran-envoy-says.html\">opposed  further sanctions against the country<\/a>. Latin America, once under  the control of the United States, is increasingly emerging as a power  bloc with its own interests and agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/feb\/25\/latin-america-independence\">Read the rest at <em>The Guardian<\/em> &#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-era-of-us-regional-leadership-is-officially-over-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-the-uks-economic-crisis-could-lead-to-the-falklands-becoming-much-more-than-an-oil-dispute-2010-2\">How The UK&#8217;s Financial Crisis Could Lead To The Falklands Becoming Much More Than An Oil Dispute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chavez-blames-venezuelas-inability-to-meet-basic-human-needs-on-el-nino-2010-2\">Chavez Blames Venezuela&#8217;s Inability To Meet Basic Human Needs On El Nino And Global Warming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/haiti-is-turf-for-brazil-us-power-struggle-2010-1\">Haiti Has Become Ground Zero For Brazil To Flex Its Muscle Against The US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/6y02-RRm8ps\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organisation of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded. The increasing independence of Latin America has been one of the most important geopolitical changes over the last decade, affecting not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}