Presented By:
Derrick M. Saenz-Payne
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Trade
Wealth
Culture
Religion
Technology
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Imperial Conquests
Oppression
Exploitation
Wars
Occupation
As technology advances and the global market expands, the
question that must be asked is:
How will society approach the international
relationships of the future?
What does this study reveal?
Ernesto Guevara
Ché Guevara
U.S. involvement in Latin American development
during the first-half of the twentieth century
• The Roosevelt Corollary
• Dollar Diplomacy
• The Good Neighbor Policy
• The National Security Act of 1947
 President Theodore Roosevelt
positioned the U.S. to be the leading
nation in Western Hemisphere
 “International Police Power”
 Granted the U.S. political power to
intervene in Latin American affairs
 Replaced traditional military
interventions with economic
imperialism
 “Substitute Dollars for Bullets”
 Structured to only benefit the
U.S. at the expense of Latin
American development
 Social Darwinian theme
 Moved towards mutual
development
 In doing so, the U.S. helped
promote oppressive dictatorships
who help U.S. interests
 This small amount of progress
was reversed with the start of
Cold War
 The U.S. regained its
International Police Power
 The Central Intelligence
Agency was created
 Covert operations marked a
new chapter in U.S. foreign
policy in Latin America
 U.S. economic interests (public
and private) were considered
U.S. national interests
December 1953
July 1953
Jorge Ubico
Juan José Arévalo
Jacobo Árbenz
Paramilitary and Psychological Campaign to
remove Guatemala’s democratically elected
president, President Árbenz
U.S. Department of State: November 12, 1953
Letter: January 15, 1954
Letter: February 12, 1954
Letter: June 20, 1954
 After Ché was murdered in
1967, international relations
created new dilemmas
 1970s – Vietnam War and Iran
conflict after Shah is
overthrown
 1980s – Nicaragua intervention
 1990s – Persian Gulf War
 2000s – Afghanistan War and
Invasion of Iraq
• Cold War fear allowed the U.S. to initiate
operation PBSUCCESS based on unverified
information
• As a result, Ché Guevara set out to organize
revolutions across the globe
• The War on Terror allowed the U.S. to invade
Iraq based on unverified information
• The results of which are still unraveling
today