your response, peter kornbluh, to what rafael correa said?as we all know, the united states has a long, dark, sinister, tragic history of the materialistic intervention in the latin american region. that is one of the reasons why the wikileaks cables would be of such interest to the region as a whole, because they are detailed in the inner workings of the u.s. embassies throughout the region. they allowed citizens of latin america to be a fly on the wall as u.s. officials held meetings with members of the host government, several leaders, with all sorts of actors and political and cultural society. one could see what the policies were, what the influence was, and quite a bit of revelations about what the governments of the region were saying to the united states as well. wikileaks has provided the ability for latin americans to gauge, at least in terms of the embassy -- we should stress these embassy cables are not cia or defense department cables. they do not look at the dark in covert operations that are still going on. they allow you to se