BR. WHY WOULD THE U.S. INTERVENE IN LATIN AMERICA?

NICARAGUA 1925 General Emiliano Chamorro

overthrows the government and sparks a civil war.

In 1926 Augusto Cesar Sandino leads a revolt against Adolfo Diaz, Chamorro’s successor to rid Nicaragua of Americans who he viewed as invaders.

Sandino wanted Nicaraguans to control their country’s land and wealth.

NICARAGUA CONT. Sandino’s forces were ultimately defeated by

a U.S. trained general Anastasio Somoza. Somoza ordered Sandinos’s assassination

and in 1936 took over the Presidency. The U.S. would back Somoza and he would

rule Nicaragua with the support of the U.S. until the Sandinista Revolution would over throw Somoza’s dynasty in 1979.

THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY In 1933 President

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“ In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of good neighbor – the neighbor who respects himself and because he does so, respects the rights of others”.

RELATIONS WITH MEXICO

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO’S BORDER

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO RELATIONS Mexico’s President

Lazaro Cardenas began to nationalize, and take control, over Mexico’s oil industry.

The Mexican constitution of 1917 proclaimed that Mexico controlled all its underground resources.

BRITAIN AND THE U.S. U.S. and British

firms had continued to own and operate oil companies in Mexico.

Mexico wanted higher wages and better working conditions for the oil workers.

U.S. AND MEXICO COMPROMISE Most Mexican’s supported Cardenas’s

bold action against the oil companies. U.S. agreed to recognize Mexico’s right

to control its resources. Roosevelt decided to maintain good

relationships with Mexico. Mexico agreed to compensate the oil

companies for the property they had lost.