Analysis: How the US 'lost' Latin America

More from the BBC on the US's evolving relationship with its many neighbors to the South. In my opinion, this is a very timely subject since the topic of immigration is largely about perception and perspective. The way we're viewed by Latin America, I think, is going to be increasingly important in more ways than economic.

By Gavin Esler:

There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. Peru's Ollanta Humala talks of the evils of "the neo-liberal model." It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore — the worst for years. Virtually anyone paying attention to events in Venezuela and Nicaragua in the north to Peru and Bolivia further south, plus in different ways Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, comes to the same conclusion: there is a wave of profound anti-American feeling stretching from the Texas border to the Antarctic.
And almost everyone believes it will get worse.