1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Commission on the United States Occupations in the Americas Act or the La Comisión de las Ocupaciónes Americanos Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following as it relates to misguided United States military interventions in the following nations: (1) First occupation of Nicaragua On November 18, 1909, President William Howard Taft sent warships off the coast of Nicaragua to signal United States support for an uprising against Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya, whose Presidency was viewed as unfavorable to the interests of United States businesses operating in Nicaragua. While United States forces were not ordered to intervene directly, a small group of United States Marines nevertheless made landfall on the Nicaraguan coast and assisted in the successful rebellion against President Zelaya, who resigned on December 14, 1909, and later fled the country. A new pro-United States President of Nicaragua, Juan Estrada, was later installed in August 1910, due in large part to the pressure imposed by the continual presence of United States warships off the Nicaraguan coast. President Estrada’s pro-United States stances proved unpopular, and he was forced to resign in May of 1911 by the Nicaraguan Minister of War, Luis Mena. President Estrada was replaced by his Vice President, Adolfo Díaz. Nevertheless, Díaz’s close connections to the United States also made him unpopular, and in mid-1912, Nicaragua’s Constituent Assembly appointed Mena as the successor to the Presidency over Díaz. When the United States refused to recognize Mena’s Presidency as legitimate, Mena’s and Díaz’s forces clashed in July of 1912 in a full-scale civil war. Díaz requested the United States support in the war. Beginning on August 4, 1912, multiple contingents of United States Bluejackets and Marines arrived in Nicaragua and assisted Díaz’s forces, resulting in Díaz’s victory on October 6, 1912, when his forces captured the city of Leon, Nicaragua. Although only 7 members of the United States