Title: Latin America–United States relations - Wikipedia
Headings: Latin America–United States relations
Latin America–United States relations
Contents
Overview
19th century to World War I
Venezuelan independence
Chilean independence
Monroe Doctrine
Anderson–Gual Treaty
Anfictionic Congress of Panama
Mexican–American War (April 1846 – February 1848)
Ostend Manifesto
War of the Pacific (1879–1883)
Big Brother policy
Venezuelan crisis of 1895
Spanish–American War (1898)
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903
Platt Amendment
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
Banana Wars
1930s
World War II
Expulsion of Germans
1940s–1960s: The Cold War and the "Hemispheric Defense" Doctrine
1960s: Cuban Revolution
1970s
1980s–1990s: democratization and the Washington Consensus
2000s: Pink Tide
Free trade and other regional integration
Bilateral investment treaties
The ALBA
The U.S. military coalition in Iraq
Bolivia's nationalization of natural resources
Academic research
See also
Binational relationships
Notes
References
Further reading
Historiography
External links

Content: The turn of Castro's revolution in Cuba after 1959 toward Soviet communism alienated Cuba from the United States, though reactions to the revolution varied considerably across Latin America. An attempted invasion failed and at the peak of the Cold War in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened major war as the Soviet Union installed nuclear weapons in Cuba to defend it from an American invasion. The crisis also shook the domestic politics of Latin American countries, where governments initially exhibited little sympathy for Cuba. There was no invasion, but the United States imposed an economic boycott on Cuba that remains in effect, as well as a broke off diplomatic relations, that lasted until 2015. The US also saw the rise of left-wing governments in central America as a threat and, in some cases, overthrew democratically elected governments perceived at the time as becoming left-wing or unfriendly to U.S. interests. Examples include the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the support of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. After 1960, Latin America increasingly supplied illegal drugs, especially marijuana and cocaine to the rich American market. One consequence was the growth of extremely violent drug gangs in Mexico and other parts of Central America attempting to control the drug supply. In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States gave strong support to violent anti-Communist forces in Latin America. The fall of Soviet communism in 1989–92 largely ended the communist threat.