Throughout Latin America, Cold War-era resentment of America is likely to ease, and its standing may improve in countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and especially Venezuela, which has been a Cuban ideological satellite and the Castro regime’s major economic lifeline. Indeed, it would be unsustainable for Venezuela, nearly bankrupt owing to falling oil prices, to remain on its anti-American course, while the Castro brothers themselves have reconciled with the “gringos.”
与此同时，对古巴关系正常化可能带来意义深远的收益。纵观拉丁美洲，冷战时期的反美情绪可能已有所松懈，玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔、尼加拉瓜等国家的立场可能有所改善，特别是委内瑞拉——它一直是古巴的意识形态卫星，也是卡斯特罗政权的主要经济命脉。事实上，拜石油价格下跌所赐，委内瑞拉已接近破财产，无法再坚持反美立场，而卡斯特罗兄弟本身也与“外国佬”做出了妥协。