tes assumed the responsibility of protecting American commerce and investment by forcibly maintaining order in the region.(3) Uninvited, it assumed the role of policeman of the Western Hemisphere. In this capacity, the United States focused its attention on the weak and chaotic nations of the Caribbean and Central America, where American economic activity was concentrated.(4) It is important to note that American intervention in Latin America did not begin to full scale until the 1890¡¯s even though the Manifest Destiny was declared in 1823. American military weakness, lack of information, and British predominance in the area had limited U.S. activities in Latin America. However, the war against Spain in 1898 established the United States as a full-fledged imperial power.(5) The primary goal of its Cuban policy during the 1890¡¯s was to protect t
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