{"id":599,"date":"2025-02-21T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=599"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:33:00","slug":"chapter-15-the-united-states-and-latin-america-1945-2024","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-15-the-united-states-and-latin-america-1945-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 15: The United States and Latin America, 1945\u20132024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 15: The United States and Latin America, 1945\u20132024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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American economic and political dominance of the Western Hemisphere had been well established in the first half of the twentieth century and was justified under the principles of the Monroe Doctrine. The Organization of American States (OAS), a regional body established to settle inter-American disputes was launched in 1948 and formally established in 1951. The structure of dependency and the dominance in the commercial sphere of American-based multinational companies seemed to many to bear responsibility for the stark levels of inequality that were one of the driving issues behind the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s. In the decades that followed, the United States\u2019 dominance of the Western Hemisphere was challenged. By the end of the Cold War, the Monroe Doctrine and America\u2019s presumed right to militarily intervene in South America were effectively over. In the twenty-first century, Latin America is in no way a uniform bloc subject to the whims of a superpower to the north. Thus, while the United States may still be the dominant player in the Western Hemisphere, it cannot act unilaterally as was the case throughout most of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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