Perspective: The U.S. can’t keep selfishly meddling in Latin America if it expects to stop illegal immigration. How Donald Trump is making illegal immigration worse.
A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro holds a sign with a defaced image depicting President Trump during an “anti-intervention” march in Caracas on Feb. 27. By Juan David Coronado Juan David Coronado is a post-doctoral scholar at the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University and author of “I’m Not Gonna Die in this Damn Place: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War.
With the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, which forbade further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. positioned itself for influence, power and control in the Americas, while opposing further European colonization of Latin America. By 1826, the nations of Latin America, with the exception of Cuba and Puerto Rico, had achieved independence from their European overseers.
The same was true in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Panama, among other nations. Through military interventions in what are known as the “Banana Wars,” and by co-opting and corrupting political systems, the U.S. brought these young nations under its control. When these countries resisted and challenged these abusive relationships, democratically elected governments were overthrown by U.S.-led interests.
Over the past three decades, a recession in Latin America enabled the International Monetary Fund to demand countries seeking loans adopt policies that promote the free-market fundamentalism preferred by the United States. These policies widened the wealth gap between the rich and the poor throughout Latin America. As Latin American economies have struggled, young people have turned to the lucrative drug underworld.
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