United States intervention in Latin America

United States intervention in Latin America comprises political, military, and economic actions that shaped the governments and affairs of countries in the region.

United States occupation of Haiti: A United States military occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. It illustrates prolonged military control justified through financial and strategic concerns.
Monroe Doctrine: An 1823 United States policy opposing new European colonization and intervention in the Americas. It became a recurring rationale for asserting United States authority in the hemisphere.
Latin America: A region of the Americas encompassing countries where Romance languages, especially Spanish and Portuguese, predominate. The region's political diversity shaped the varied forms intervention took.
United States–Latin America relations: The political, economic, and cultural relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America. Interventions are a persistent source of mistrust and cooperation in these relations.
Good Neighbor policy: A United States policy of nonintervention and improved relations with Latin America, pursued chiefly in the 1930s. It marked a declared retreat from direct military occupation.
United States occupation of Nicaragua: A United States military occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933, interrupted briefly in 1925–1926. It shows how intervention could support a preferred government and provoke armed resistance.
Roosevelt Corollary: A 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting a United States right to intervene in Latin American countries. It explicitly cast intervention as a way to forestall European involvement.
Spanish American wars of independence: A series of conflicts from the early nineteenth century that ended Spanish rule across much of the Americas. Newly independent states became the setting for later United States expansion and influence.
Latin American debt crisis: A regional financial crisis in the 1980s marked by defaults, recession, and heavy external debt burdens. United States-led lending conditions extended economic influence beyond military intervention.
Alliance for Progress: A United States program launched in 1961 to promote economic development and political stability in Latin America. It favored aid and reform over the occupations of earlier decades, though Cold War priorities remained.

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