But the Vietnamese or Chinese roads are unacceptable in Latin America, which has made huge progress in transforming advances in democracy and respect for human rights into a regional legal order that goes beyond national sovereignty or the sacrosanct principle of non-intervention. After decades of coups, dictatorships, torture, and disappearances, Latin America today, while not devoid of these plagues, has built a number of firewalls to forestall them.
但越南或中国的道路很难在拉美被人接受，因为这个地区在将民主进步和对人权的尊重转化为超越国家主权或神圣不可侵犯的不干涉原则方面取得了重大的进展。在长达数十年的政变、独裁、折磨和失踪绑架之后，今天的拉美尽管没有彻底摆脱所有这些烦恼，但却修建了几道防火墙，以避免这样的事件再度发生。