The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years.
Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia.
Latin America is waking up – and so is Africa.
In Latin America, street protests against the US / IMF imposed debt trap and the consequential austerity programs, making the rich richer and the poor poorer, are raging in Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and even in Brazil. In Argentina,In Latin America, though much of the sub-Continent was “freed” from Spain and Portugal in the 19th Century – a new kind of colonization followed by the new Empire of the United States – under the so-called Monroe Doctrine, named after President James Monroe (1817 -1825), forbidding Europeans to interfere in any “American territory”. Latin America was then and is again today considered Washington’s Backyard.
Step 1: Destabilize the existing government, and break it through war, and/or /assassination if you must.
Step 2: Install a puppet government which is, at least on the surface, more "western-centric"
Step 3: Have your money junkie cronies administer the expropriation of that countries' natural resources, to which you have utterly no moral right.
Step 4: Wash, Rinse, and repeat to other, numerous countries on your "To Do" list.