While the United States had direct colonies (the Philippines and Puerto Rico after 1898),
While the United States had direct colonies (the Philippines and Puerto Rico after 1898), Washington really
created an informal empire in the Americas where the United States dominated the regions economically and militarily. The United States after 1900 will frequently intervene in neighboring states, like with Columbia in 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt fomented a “revolution” in the Panama province to secure his dream of a canal. What do you think the legacy of this United States interference in countries like Mexico, Nicaragua and Haiti will be?