Brief History of US-Latin American Relations

There has always been a power differential between the United States and Latin America and thus, the relationship has always revolved around the interests of the US and Latin America's reaction to that. Nonetheless, while American intervention caused a lot problems in the region, the American footprint was far more evident in Central America and the Caribbean than South America and was not always negative. This video looks at the various ways in which the relationship has changed from 1787 to 2021.