community workers steven sefton thinks the situation reflects the decline of u. s. influence in latin america leads to the summit of the americas some over the last couple of occasions has involved those kinds of complications. largely because the united states policy host, as everybody is well aware of for decades, applied sanctions, what they call sanctions, which are in fact illegal unilateral coercive measures against the government of cuba. and since something like 2015, i believe, i remember rightly the united states government has been applying similar sanctions against. and his waiver overrule, what you're seeing is a decline in the influence of the united states. and i think this whole issue in itself reflects an inability of the united states to exert the kind of repressive control over countries in latin america and the caribbean. so you have all these countries in effect rebelling a publicly declaring disagreement with united states in a very forthright way. and i think that's really unprecedented. i thought you were a pain officially back and a marsh