Why does everyone hate us? Er, I think it's because of stuff like this:

An Associated Press report that the United States has been quietly buying up computerized data banks that contain the names, addresses, telephone listings and identity card numbers of hundreds of millions of people in 10 Latin American countries drew broad criticism and expressions of alarm throughout the region last week.

The company that collected the information and sold it to the United States government said the only goal was to improve control of immigration. But Latin Americans saw Big Brother-like purposes, and the governments of Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica ordered investigations.

That's from an article on Latin American opposition to the Iraq war that was published in yesterday's New York Times Oh yeah -- as the article points out, reemploying many of the fine folks who brought you Reagan's El Salvador and Nicaragua policies doesn't exactly win hearts and minds, either.