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Article: Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States.(Review)
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- June 22, 2001
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Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States. By Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 289. $39.95.)
From the time of their independence, the United States and the Latin American nations have experienced a conflicting relationship. Each had distinct colonial experiences, and, likewise, each developed differently during their formative years in the nineteenth century. As a result of its experiences, the United States became secure in its political and economic system and confidently entered the world arena at the dawn of the twentieth century. This was not so for the nations of Latin America, which ...