We engineered the overthrow of governments in Cairo, Damascus, Libya, Kiev etc ad nauseum. If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn't be the mess it is now.
“If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn’t be the mess it is now.”
And exactly what form, and when exacrtly, would that “concentrated on Central America” efforts have taken place, without them being characterized as “meddling” by the political classes in Central America, or as corrupt crony-capitalist thanks from them, without any domestic improvements therein??
Foreign influence in small countries is easier to come by from nations far away, over any big giant neighbors, as faraway foreigners are more often seen as less likely to try to dominate them than the big giant neighbor. For instance we are viewed with less suspicion in many small nations of Asia than is their neighbor China. Rejection of the big neighbor is sort of natural and not necessarily related to the politics of that neighbor.