Bloc(k)ing Intervention

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have decided to construct a regional body that excludes the United States of America and Canada from membership as an alternative bloc to the Organization of American States, according to BBC News.

Frankly, that’s fabulous news.

The United States – along with its less invasive, equally culturally elitist neighbor to the north – cannot continue dominance in the southern tier of the world’s western hemisphere.

Although we may have initially dubbed it our one of many “spheres of influence” back in the Spanish-American War-Era, we should no longer continue to depend on variations of Colonialism and Imperialism, even if they are called something different to sound more tolerable.

Perhaps this will serve as a more than needed wake-up call for countries such as the United States that focus too often on the invasion and puppet-like control of other countries to establish economic ties and import capitalism.

The U.S. has been exempt from the right to join for reasons (in this theoretically declared organization), so we should perhaps reflect on why that is. Maybe it will help initiate some more holistically sound diplomatic relations.

Well, we can only hope.