"Within weeks of the strategy being released, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro and brought the country's courtship with China to a halt."
Maduro shows his red Huawei phone- a gift from President Xi that can't be hacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAmfAsPRYDU
Huawei has been "Blacklisted in the United States, the Chinese telecom provider has been deepening its foothold in other parts of the Americas. It spearheads the Digital Silk Road, a core of Beijing's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative aimed at stretching the regime's power and influence around the globe."
"Huawei's data storage platform now covers every Latin American country..."
"Market research data from Canalys show that Chinese phones brands now command more than 60% of the Latin America market."
"In Ecuador, the China-made ECU011 system powers up surveillance cameras nationwide that feed real-time footage to a thousands-strong police unit, which deals with everything from traffic to national security."
President Xi started this is 2014. "The idea here is to rebuild from the roots, pulling the 33 Latin American countries and Caribbean nations together with China while keeping America out."
I wonder how this could happen

"Chinese shipping giant COSCO has 30 years of exclusive operating rights to the port. The Peruvian port authority blamed this on an administrative error in 2024.
But its bid to void the terms quickly fizzled out; the country's congress approved the changes that legalized the COSCO deal."
"In a further win for COSCO, a Peruvian court on January 29 restricted state oversight of the terminal's operations.
The United States warned that Peru could lose sovereignty of critical infrastructure in its own territory to predatory China owners."
At this point China now has 40 ports with Chinese investment in Latin America. "Similar Chinese dominance repeats in sectors such as critical mineral extraction, logistics and renewable energy."