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My dad has been saying for decades how ridiculous it is we have neglected this entire hemisphere, causing damage and then complaining when the countries we've directly impacted have people who want a better life.
Imagine the position we'd be in if we moved all of our low cost manufacturing labor to central and South America instead of China. There's no reason we can't be helping our direct neighbors.
That's a great, and very agreeable point, Waluigi's Talking Buttplug!
Not neglecting, more like actively sabotaging. Since the 1800s the US has been actively interfering in the politics of every country from Mexico southward. Fomenting coups against popular governments and giving full support to brutal and genocidal dictators all to protect US business interests.
The 20th century called and wants its foreign policy back!
Long story short, while what you say is historically true, it has little or nothing to do with current reality and in fact, your version is insulting and unwelcome to current Latin American nations inasmuch as it's a story that privileges Anglo-American narratives as somehow having primacy.
Go ahead and go fuck yourself.
Leaving aside all of the maquiladoras that have sprung up across the border since the passage of NAFTA, sure, your old man has a point.
What really happened is that we did move our low-cost manufacturing to Latin America, but our capitalist rent-seeking overlords figured out that playing ball with the CCP was even more lucrative and so they willingly allowed low-cost Asian manufacturing to take over.
That said, it's still true that the US does more trade with Mexico than we do with China.