If not America, then who? The Soviet Union would have turned a lot of Latin America into their imperial possessions, like they did in Cuba and Eastern Europe. T

If not America, then who? The Soviet Union would have turned a lot of Latin America into their imperial possessions, like they did in Cuba and Eastern Europe. Today, the regimes that would fill the void left by an American retreat from leadership are hostile and much less concerned with elections and human rights than the US. On a personal note, I can only wish that the US had intervened more successfully against Castro in Cuba, the home that my family and millions of others have fled to America from.