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An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have long
plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This
book offers an important new synthesis of that complex relationship
by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been
interpreted and played out in Latin America. Beginning with the
Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the United States unilaterally asserted
its right to protect the hemisphere against foreign intervention.
But what began as a policy boldly proclaiming hemispheric security
soon led to direct intervention by the United States in political,
economic, and military matters throughout Latin America. Meddling
by the United States resulted in deep-seated antagonisms that have
adversely impacted U.S.-Latin American relations for over 150
years. Don Coerver and Linda Hall draw on their expertise in modern
Latin American history to present U.S. policies in light of their
impact on these countries. They help readers understand the issues
that have defined and divided nations of the Western Hemisphere
from the 1820s to the present. Events since 1940 are the focus of
more than half the book, including the Cuban Revolution and missile
crisis; negotiations in the 1970s over turnover of the Panama
Canal; wars in Central America in the 1980s; and in the 1990s, the
impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on
relations with Mexico and the effects of the so-called war on drugs
throughout the Americas.
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