Latin America Policy Essay
HIST 8 lecture notes 5.2.13
US-Latin America Policy 1823-1946 * Increasing US influence and intervention * After the removal of the Spanish monarchy’s control in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico are the last vestiges of Spanish control in the western hemisphere * International rivalries and how they play out in this hemisphere during this period is important * Once the civil war is over, the US, as it is industrializing, is concerned with what they termed “our backyard” * The notion that the US can simply take advantage of Latin America- very offensive to Latin Americans
Monroe Doctrine 1823 * This was an important moment for the US * Directed in particular at Great Britain
Territorial …show more content…
* 1880-93 French Panama Canal project – failed and went bankrupt * 1904-1914 US Panama Canal – US took over project * But they have to deal with the fact that Colombia had not given right to this – they create a treaty and assist creation of independent country of Panama * Panama cost so much a took so long to build- bc the Atlantic side and the Caribbean side are of a different height * Panama canal opens in 1914- this was seen as one of the wonders of the world- it still is * In terms of engineering, it is one of the wonders of the world * It also cut down transit time for goods * This whole era is part of increasing US influence militarily * The US beat out the French in completing the project
HIST 8 lecture notes 5.7.2013
The Mexican revolution – movie
• Big concerns of the revolution: land, peasants rights, income inequality
• 1910- celebration of MX independence- Mexico during the 19th c and the beginning of the 20th c- liberal programs of modernization- railroads, foreign investment- President Porfirio Diaz
• Mexico’s rural poor, the Indian campesinos left out of the narrative of progress
• Many worked land that their families used to own
• Porfirio Diaz now seen as a tyrant in Mexican …show more content…
Batista regime
• 1952-58
• 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista
• Canceled elections – began to centralize power in his own hands
• Opposition by the Cuban middle class
• Allies with the US- large scale foreign business
US-Latin America Policy 1823-1946 * Increasing US influence and intervention * After the removal of the Spanish monarchy’s control in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico are the last vestiges of Spanish control in the western hemisphere * International rivalries and how they play out in this hemisphere during this period is important * Once the civil war is over, the US, as it is industrializing, is concerned with what they termed “our backyard” * The notion that the US can simply take advantage of Latin America- very offensive to Latin Americans
Monroe Doctrine 1823 * This was an important moment for the US * Directed in particular at Great Britain
Territorial …show more content…
* 1880-93 French Panama Canal project – failed and went bankrupt * 1904-1914 US Panama Canal – US took over project * But they have to deal with the fact that Colombia had not given right to this – they create a treaty and assist creation of independent country of Panama * Panama cost so much a took so long to build- bc the Atlantic side and the Caribbean side are of a different height * Panama canal opens in 1914- this was seen as one of the wonders of the world- it still is * In terms of engineering, it is one of the wonders of the world * It also cut down transit time for goods * This whole era is part of increasing US influence militarily * The US beat out the French in completing the project
HIST 8 lecture notes 5.7.2013
The Mexican revolution – movie
• Big concerns of the revolution: land, peasants rights, income inequality
• 1910- celebration of MX independence- Mexico during the 19th c and the beginning of the 20th c- liberal programs of modernization- railroads, foreign investment- President Porfirio Diaz
• Mexico’s rural poor, the Indian campesinos left out of the narrative of progress
• Many worked land that their families used to own
• Porfirio Diaz now seen as a tyrant in Mexican …show more content…
Batista regime
• 1952-58
• 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista
• Canceled elections – began to centralize power in his own hands
• Opposition by the Cuban middle class
• Allies with the US- large scale foreign business