[Ryzorian]

600 million in poverty can do that, so China, despite it's advances has too many internal problems to worry about.

Sciffix; I don't Deny the US has meddled in south and central American polatics for a long time. While the idea of "unilateral" sounds good on paper, it's all just a shakedown of American money for south and central America based on some "past imperialist transgretions" Ponzi skeem. Besides, US is broke, so guess "unilateral" isn't going to happen.