Pan-American anything often boils down to just good ol’ NAFTA + Colombia. Brazil and Argentina feed China, benefit from China’s presence re: the US, and Buenos

Pan-American anything often boils down to just good ol’ NAFTA + Colombia. Brazil and Argentina feed China, benefit from China’s presence re: the US, and Buenos Aires is as far away from Miami as London is. Throw in the guay’s cause geography, and Bolivia because Bolivia, most of South America’s productive land isn’t counter arguing. Because any reasonably committed extent of that economy ends at the Amazon, it’s just NAFTA + Colombia + Peru + Chile. Colombia’s a great get and arguably already in progress, but Chile is tiny and Peru is far. The rest is some of the most picturesque, violent, non trivially developed (expensive!) tropical geography on earth that’s been in the pits for centuries even by extractive colonial standards for a reason, with the Caribbean part anchored by Cuba and Venezuela. Total population addition less than Mexico, spread across a region the size of Australia, with the “easy” wins a 1000 miles away tucked into the Andes.