latin america

Describes the impact of the United States' tendency to interfere in the affairs of Latin America, explains why the author believes the U.S. drugs policy has caused environmental damage and failed to reduce the supply of cocaine, and examines the U.S. economic stake in Latin America.

"[This] book is divided into 12 chapters, each addressing an important and controversial issue pertinent to Latinos. A background section introduces each chapter about U.S. Latino communities and their history, then frames each issue, after which arguments for and against the issue are debated, followed by a section with questions for students to discuss and debate"--Pages xxvii-xxviii.

"... is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today"--Amazon.com.

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America?s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny among their ?sister republics.? But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation?s fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Marshaling groundbreaking research in four languages, Caitlin Fitz defines this hugely significant, previously unacknowledged turning point in U.S. history.

"This book considers nearly 150 years of U.S. military intervention in Latin America, from naval patrols near turbulent Spanish colonies in the early 19th century, to the protection of U.S. interests during Caribbean rebellions at the turn of the 20th century, to later actions in Panama, Honduras, Cuba and Nicaragua"--Provided by publisher.

Contains essays in which various authors examine the relations between the United States and other countries in North and South America, discussing the links that exist in the areas of economics, immigration, drug policy, the environment, human rights, and regional security.

Concise, straightforward survey of relations between the United States and Latin America from the early years of the American Republic to the present. Includes speculation about the future.

A collection of twenty-seven controversial essays involving political, economic, and social issues challenging the people of Latin America.