The outliers were Venezuela, despite high oil prices, and the Caribbean Basin: Mexico, Central America, and the islands. These countries export manufactured goods to the US, on which they also rely for tourism and remittances; they lack either the geography or the geology to become great commodity exporters (or, like Mexico, they export all of their oil to the US).
不受影响的国家有委内瑞拉（尽管石油价格高）和加勒比海盆地地区：墨西哥、中美洲和岛国。这些国家向美国出口制造品，还依赖美国带来的旅游和汇款。它们缺少成为大宗商品出口大国的地理和地质条件（或者像墨西哥，它们把所有石油出口到美国）。