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The "establishment" school which sees US policy towards Latin America as an attempt to exclude extraterritorial rivals from the hemisphere as a way to defend the United States. This grouping of scholars generally sees the US presence in Latin America as beneficial for the region, as it has made warfare rare, led to the creation of multilateral ...
Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas (left) and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) in 1936. The Good Neighbor policy (Spanish: Política de buena vecindad [1] Portuguese: Política de Boa Vizinhança) was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Latin America.
The participation of the United States in regime change in Latin America involved US-backed coup d'états which were aimed at replacing left-wing leaders with right-wing leaders, military juntas, or authoritarian regimes. [1] Intervention of an economic and military variety was prevalent during the Cold War.
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Good Neighbor policy [1] was developed by encouraging cultural exchange between the United States and Latin American countries by cooperation in presenting the event. The policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Latin America.
The 19th century formed the roots of United States foreign interventionism, which at the time was largely driven by economic opportunities in the Pacific and Spanish-held Latin America along with the Monroe Doctrine, which saw the U.S. seek a policy to resist European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Most popularized is Grace Livingstone’s America’s Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror, which accounts the US strategy towards Latin America over the past half century, specifically revealing its intrinsic weaknesses and the profound ignorance and prejudice of US policymakers. [9]
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, [1] as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community". [2]
The United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution was varied and seemingly contradictory, first supporting and then repudiating Mexican regimes during the period 1910–1920. [1] For both economic and political reasons, the U.S. government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, but could withhold official recognition.