Don't worry - they're brown and poor

They can't hurt us.

The first stop is the Brukman textiles plant, which was abandoned by its owners in December 2001 after a decade of pro-Washington, free-market policies by Argentina's government ended with an epic economic crash.

"Argentina did everything the United States told us to, and we went straight to hell," said Sergio Cardenas, one of 60 workers who have since taken control of the factory and resumed production as a co-op. "The Americans ruined us."

A mile away sits a McDonald's restaurant that was set on fire two years ago when riots toppled a pro-U.S. president. Hop back in the cab to the financial district, and pass banks covered with metal shields to protect them from customers angry over a systemwide deposit freeze in place since the crash.

"Yankee gangsters! Give our money back!" blares graffiti scrawled on the walls of a branch of U.S.-owned Citibank.

As around the rest of Latin America, anti-U.S. sentiment is certainly nothing new. Former Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz could have been speaking for the whole region a century ago when he said: "Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States."

...Distrust has deepened following the 1990s when many governments aligned with Washington only to see their economies collapse into crisis at the end of the decade.  article

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.