Theodore Roosevelt, an advocate of ‘big stick diplomacy', viewed Latin America as the United States' backyard – a place where it could intervene at will. At the slightest threat to American interests, he would send in the marines – to Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Cuba. In 1903 Washington sponsored a separatist movement in Panama, then a province of Colombia, to secure control of the future canal. Three years later, having been lauded for mediating in the Russo-Japanese war, Roosevelt (…)
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