The United States and Latin America

by John Holladay Latané

THE UNITED STATES
AND
LATIN AMERICA

BY

JOHN HOLLADAY LATANÉ

PH.D., LL.D.

professor of american history and dean of the

college faculty in the johns hopkins university

Author of "From Isolation to Leadership,"

"America as a World Power," etc.

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TO THE MEMORY OF

MY FATHER

WHOSE DAILY COMMENTS ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS WERE MY FIRST LESSONS IN THE STUDY OF POLITICS

AND TO

MY MOTHER

WHO IMPARTED TO ME A LOVE OF HISTORY AND WHOSE APPROVAL IS STILL THE RICHEST REWARD OF MY EFFORTS

PREFACE

This book is based on a smaller volume issued by the Johns Hopkins Press in 1900 under the title "The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America," which contained the first series of Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. That volume has been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming in, with increasing frequency of late. In response to this demand and in view of the widespread interest in our relations with our Southern neighbors I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty years.

Chapters I, II and V are reprinted with only minor changes; III, IV and VI have been rewritten and brought down to date; VII, VIII and IX are wholly new.

J.H.L.

Baltimore,

May 7, 1920

Contents

Chapter		Page
I	The Revolt of the Spanish Colonies	3
II	The Recognition of the Spanish-American Republics	48
III	The Diplomacy of the United States in Regard to Cuba	83
IV	The Diplomatic History of the Panama Canal	144
V	French Intervention in Mexico	193
VI	The Two Venezuelan Episodes	238
VII	The Advance of the United States in the Caribbean	261
VIII	Pan Americanism	292
IX	The Monroe Doctrine	292
Index		335

Maps

South America	Frontispiece
The Caribbean	Facing page	262