If you look at the wars, the coups, the myriad forms of intervention - and there's a lot - in Latin America, it's not driven really by the corporations. Sometimes they're involved, but really its the empire. The United States is an empire, and that's what they're trying to preserve. They do it because it's a game of chess to them, and the pawns are important. You want to get every country that you can to line up with US foreign policy.