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Conrad Black: Latin America's conservative renaissance

The Western Hemisphere is experience a pro-American shift

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The current U.S. administration seeks to reimpose the Monroe Doctrine upon this hemisphere. This was an initiative by President James Monroe in 1823, which accepted the presence of European powers in the Americas, but purported to forbid any new intrusions in the Americas from overseas or to extend existing ones. The United States at the time had no authority to enforce such a ukase, but it was aware that the British did not wish any successful attempt by Spain to resurrect its empire in the Americas, which by 1823 had been reduced to Cuba and Puerto Rico. Thus the Monroe doctrine for its first 40 years was in fact based on the British control of the seas.

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