U.S. Cold War Policy in Latin AmericaNeglect -> rediscover -> resist -> military or covert action…repeat?

Truman’s Four Point Program

• 1949 Inaugural address• Post-colonialism

problem• Successes• Shortcomings

Nixon Visit to Venezuela, 1958

Alliance for Progress 1961

-Social, economic and political reform through infusion of foreign aid-Success? -Failures?

Johnson Doctrine

• http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/4032

U.S. troops in the Dominican Republic

-LBJ faced a series of minor crisis in LA-Cuba and Panama-Dominican Republic – “prevent another Cuba”

Reagan and the Caribbean Basin Initiative 1982

• Followed the premise of 4 Point Program and Alliance for Progress

• 6 elements• Eligibility for aid?• Sucess/Failures

Grenada InvasionOct. 25, 1983

-US sought to remove Cuban military presence -Operation Urgent Fury-Anti-American dictatorship-Cubans evicted-Soviets blamed-Old school containment

…a Soviet-Cuban colony being readied as a major military bastion to extort terror and undermine democracy - Reagan

Nicaragua: The Contras• Defined: A group of

counterrevolutionaries opposed to the ruling Sandinista government

• Background: The Sandinista Liberation Front came to power in 1979

• Damage by Contras led to counterinsurgency tactics by Sandinistas

• Boland Amendment - 1984