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  China has more influence in Central America than Russia. Both Russia and China have more influence in Central America than they would have had we not promoted banana republics, regime changes and other not so neighborly policies. 
  China controls the majority of Warehousing and shipping services in the region and Chinese is taught more than English in Panama. We are to some degree reaping what was sown.
context: Central and South American countries  have pretty much stayed out of most conflicts. >
  
  Kinda got their hands full with their own >
  
  I wonder who stoked those flames... >
  
  It wasn't the US......flashback to Mexican American war. >
  
  And the entirety of the 20th century >
  
  US been fighting somebody since they existed. >
  
  What is with this article identifying every government as leftist? Bolsanaro had exactly the same position. >
  
  Yea I got some flack for pointing out the reality in another thread:
  Brazil will literally collapse and starve if Russia ever cuts off their fertilizer. Lula, Bolsonaro, and anyone else in power down there is literally powerless to stand up to Russia. 
  Not defending Lula, just pointing out his hands are tied here. >
  
  Yup, and the level of diplomatic support provided by Brazil and many others in UN votes is quite useful on its own: it discredits any narrative that Russia's imperialism has popular global support.