US Lost Leadership in Latin America, Guillermo Arriaga
Mexican scriptwriter, Guillermo Arriaga, well known for films such as Babel, 21 gramos and Amores perros, assured that the United States seems to act without any counter balance against its world power.

In declarations to the press, the author also of Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada, pointed out that “the Bush government doesn’t know what to attack.”

He added that US leadership in Latin America has been lost and the space it left is now occupied by the presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“There seems to be no counter balance but the ghost of terrorism has become the most terrible counterweight for the United States because it doesn’t know who to attack,” he pointed out.

“The United States turned its eyes on another region and abandoned this one and it is going to pay heavily for the consequences,” he said referring to the military aggression of Iraq.

“I believe that the political and economic oligarchies of Latin America that plundered the continent to such an extent have provoked a counter-reaction of the left,” he emphasized.

Referring to the left wing governments of Latin America he said “we have a much more social vision, much more oriented to the truly absurd indexes of poverty that neo liberalism caused and against its infamous plundering.”

Guillermo Arriaga is in Costa Rica as part of an international tour that began in April of 2006 to promote his literary work