John Kirk

De­struc­tive US ef­forts to con­trol its “back­yard” con­tin­ue to this day.

The re­turn of left­ist gov­ern­ments in the re­gion is a clear in­di­ca­tion of re­gion-wide re­jec­tion of US poli­cies.

The up­com­ing gath­er­ing is shap­ing up to be not a gen­uine ‘Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as’ but a ‘Sum­mit of re­gion­al al­lies’.

As the for­mer leader turns 90, he is seen as both a to­tal­i­tar­i­an dic­ta­tor and an anti-im­pe­ri­al­is­tic hu­man­i­tar­i­an.