Tag: Monroe Doctrine

• September 30, 2019

  Charles Hughes on National Interest and the Monroe Doctrine

  Charles E. Hughes was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. This very influential American statesman helped install into the State…
• December 17, 2018

  Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba

  Hi. I wanted to summarize an article from the Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 34, Part 2, May 2002: “Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba” by Louis A. Perez Jr. For more than forty years the United States has pursued a policy designed to remove Fidel Castro from…
• August 1, 2018

  A Quick Overview of The Monroe Doctrine

  Hi, Let’s review the Monroe Doctrine so that we can better understand how it’s used as a declaration of hegemony and right of unilateral intervention in Latin America. The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. The statement articulated United States’ policy on the new political order developing…
• August 15, 2011

  Nicaragua: The First Real American Coup

  During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the ideals of social and political reform swept across Central America. Visionary leaders, inspired by European philosophers and nation builders, sought to wipe away the feudal systems that had frozen their countries into immobility. One of them, President José Santos Zelaya of Nicaragua, took his nationalist principles…