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Article: Losing ground in Latin America. (United States foreign relations)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- January 22, 1990
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Losing ground in Latin America
It was just over eight decades ago, in 1906, that President Theodore Roosevelt elected to wave the big stick of the United States Navy in the Caribbean where, in the words of biographer Edmund Morris, the warships could "steam thoughtfully" along the Cuban coast to ensure the security of a new American-installed government there. To many in Latin America, last week's flap over a proposal to position the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kennedy in international waters off the coast of Colombia evoked bitter memories of the jingoism of TR. Colombians protested what they claimed was a planned "blockade," and George Bush had to telephone ...