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The banana wars: United States intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001). Long, Tom. Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2015). online
In 1912, during the Banana Wars period, the U.S. occupied Nicaragua as a means of protecting American business interests and protecting the rights that Nicaragua granted to the United States to construct a canal there. [57] At the same time, the United States and Mexican governments competed for political influence in Central America.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with Dominican Republic president Luis Abinader in 2025. The country's standing as the largest Caribbean economy, second-largest country in terms of land mass, and third-largest in population, with large bilateral trade with (due to its proximity to) the United States and other smaller Caribbean nations make the Dominican Republic an important partner ...
Its relative proximity to Hawaii and United States military bases in Guam also gives it strategic importance as great powers compete for influence in the vast waterways between Asia and the Americas.
Haiti and the United States (1997) online; Dash, J. Michael. Haiti and the United States: National stereotypes and the literary imagination (Springer, 2016). Edwards, Jason A. "Defining the enemy for the post-Cold War world: Bill Clinton’s foreign policy discourse on Somalia and Haiti." International Journal of Communication (2008) #6 online
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Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The island is thought to have been claimed by Haiti prior to being claimed by the United States, as far back as 1801.