Monroe Doctrine, a Blank Check for u.s. Interventionism in Latin America

El Pais

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Designed in 1823, the Monroe doctrine emerged as the basis of the foreign policy of the United States in order to prevent the European powers from establishing new colonies in Latin America. Over time, it became a means to justify the interventionism of the American country in the region, then referred to as the backyard of Washington. Among the most representative examples of how the United States has been invoking the doctrine for its own bene…