Dependency Theory [video=youtube_share;JN6LlMY2ApQ]http://youtu.be/JN6LlMY2ApQ[/video] It is no coincidence that the Latin countries with the most US influence are the (from the BBC article): In a general statement in 1949 of what came to be known as the "dependency theory", the U.S. State Department's Office of Intelligence Research (OIR) observed that:
The average person in Communist Cuba also gets better health care than their island neighbors in The Domincan Republican, Haiti, or even Puerto Rico which is a dependancy of the USA.
Puerto Rico is not a dependancy, it's part of the United States. Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
