If American companies are dumb enough to build and invest in China after the events of Tienanmen Square, I suppose it’s not much of a stretch to see them doing the same in some South American socialist state.
This is one of the few things that really keeps me up at night: the very real possibility that a place where a lot of American companies have built on the cheap and/or ignored environmental/labor laws by bribing the corrupt government suddenly goes hostile and we’re out a huge chunk of our economy.
See Saudi Arabia and the British Oil Fields for a peek in to the Future. Because History always rhymes