In five pages this paper discusses the role the United States has historically played in Latin America in an assessment of pros and cons. One source is cited in the bibliography.
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U.S. involvement in Latin American affairs has been a given practically since the very beginning pages of U.S. history. This role is ensured, in fact, by the
geographic continuity of the two continents. The first three decades of the twentieth century are of particular interest in this regard. Since the advent of the New Diplomacy
at the end of the nineteenth century, in fact, the U.S. role in Latin America has grown progressively stronger. The relationship which resulted was not always amiable as we
might expect from our U.S. perspective. Indeed, at times this relationship was quite tenuous. The U.S. approach in Latin America
has been guided by the premise that we and our neighbors needed to unite under those democratic and capitalistic premises which we have espoused since our own revolution against Great
Britain. Latin America, however, is comprised of numerous political entities, not one. Consequently, there has been considerable variation in the manner in which these countries viewed both democratic
and capitalistic ideologies both internally and in the larger context of global politics and economics. The relationship between the U.S. and Latin American countries has been made even more
complex by the multitude of cultures which exist in these regions. Each of the considerations presented above has been expertly covered by author
Mark T. Gilderhus in "The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations Since 1889". The first two chapters of Gilderhus book, "Expansion, Empire, and Intervention, 1899-1913" and "Revolution, War, and Expansion,
1913-1929" are particularly illuminating in regard to the time frame analyzed by this paper. What unfolds in Gilderhus book is a long and complicated history of interaction between the