While Harris is a complete idiot, and not the actual architect of “her plan”, I would agree that investing in some of the Central American countries could be a good thing for the US. It could give us another place for manufacturing that’s not named China. If the population has an alternative to jobs in the drug trade, then that’s a benefit for everyone. Plus, then we get less migrant traffic.
The money will be stolen overnight.
It’s been proposed many times over the six decades.
The problem there is managing the graft. If there’s one thing that Central and South American governments excel at it’s stealing with the left hand what the right hand produces. They have our MIC looking like rank amateurs by comparison. They make the Ukes look like bumblers.
“investing in some of the Central American countries...”
We tried that. The problem is political instability. Unless you want to go back to the good old days when the CIA and the United Fruit Company had a free hand to stop revolutions by any means necessary. Otherwise, nobody is going to invest much in a region where every 10 years or so they flip the Monopoly board and scatter the pieces everywhere.
It is to late. The Chicoms own the place now.
The largest place for Chicom intelligence assets outside of Red China is Mexico City.