The history of Europe and the US in Latin America and the Caribbean is one of looting and carnage, colonization and slavery, invasions and coups. Is it any wonder that the nations of the region welcome positive relations with Russia and China, while viewing attempts to pressure them into abandoning these alliances as merely another stage in a long history of foreign intervention?
The US is sanctioning 1/3 of the world’s population. Sanctions have murderous results on innocent people in an effort to swing public opinion in favor of more pro-US policies from countries. Their consequences have been described as worse than war for some countries. They are the equivalent of siege warfare: starving out a population of a country until it does what you want.
It’s good that Latin American countries finally refuse to go along with this, especially as some of them have been targets of these very same sanctions before.