Aside from areas of particular concern (oil, arms, guerrillas, drugs), the US needs Latin America dearly nowadays because resistance to it is springing up everywhere, and with greater virulence than at any time since World War II’s end. The next US president must reinvigorate a relationship that is ready to be substantially transformed for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy of seven decades ago.
对美国来说，面对这样的挑战的时候不予理睬，不再是 一个可行的选择。除了其特别关注的领域（石油，武器，游击队，毒品）以外，美国现在非常需要拉丁美洲，因为对其的抵制到处存在，并且这些抵制比自二战结束以来的任何时候都具有更大的恶意。下任美国总统必须复兴一种自70年前富兰克林·罗斯福的睦邻政策以来，首次准备进行充分变革的拉丁美洲关系。