A Cold War In Latin America

Hugo Chavez And Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti, Michael Klementyev)

Forecast For Latin America: Cold (War) Winds
From Russia -- Pajamas Media

Putin and Medvedev's renewed meddling in the Americas makes it feel like the 1960s again.

Forty-six years ago this week, the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when President John F. Kennedy agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. In his pact with Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy also agreed that the U.S. would neither invade Cuba nor allow an exile invasion of Cuba, a decision that converted America from Fidel Castro’s enemy to his de facto protector. The Soviets, for their part, agreed to remove the missiles they had snuck into the island nation under Kennedy’s nose.

Just a year after the missile crisis Kennedy would be assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist admirer of Fidel Castro, and Cuba would remain an important client of the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War.

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My Comment: With the collapse in oil prices .... both Venezuela and Russia have bigger problems than starting a "cold war" against the U.S.