Since the end of the Cold War, the relationship between Russia and America is no longer in the past. But now, 20 years later, the Russian show influence in the region.

November 2008 could be called a month in Russia in much of America.
Russian high-level commission will visit Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua and Argentina. The month ends with the arrival of the president to the region.

The presidential visit also coincides with the moment when Russia and Venezuela are starting to joint military maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea.

The strategy of Russian diplomacy in America has the objective to revive the “traditional relations” with Cuba and the Nicaraguan “Sandinista” and the new left-wing governments, those of Bolivia and Paraguay.

This alleged bias “leftist” of renewed Russian presence in America is seen by some a potential repeat of the tensions of the Cold War, especially for those who equate the Hugo Chávez of Venezuela to Cuba of Fidel Castro.

For Daniel Erikson of the Inter Dialogue Research Center in Washington, the presence of Russian naval fleet in the Caribbean is a direct message from Moscow to Washington that, if the gap between the north and south continue increasing, there will be others willing to take this political and economic space.

Via: US News.