U.S. Military Intervention in Latin America
AMERICAN MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LATIN AMERI
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American television network news programs treated viewers to Panamanians expressing gratitude to the United States (US) for invading their country in the immediate aftermath of that American military action. For some Americans, such expressions of gratitude were disconcertingly similar to the pictures of some Czechs thanking the Soviet army for rescuing them from revisionism in 1968, and of the even earlier newsreel photo graphs of French villages strewing flowers ahead of German tanks in the early days of the Second World War. Were these Panamanians, Czechs, and French sincere, or were they just attempting to make the best of the terrible situation in which they found themselves? If they were sincere, were they repre sentative of the broader population in their countries? Whether or not these people were sincere, and whether or not they were representative of their populations, there remains the underlying question of whether or not the military actions of the Americans, Soviets, and Germans were beneficial to the countries invaded. Most Americans would have no diffi culty in answering this underlying question with respect to Czechoslovakia in 1968 and France in the early 1940s, and all too few Americans would give a second thought to the question before answering in the affirmative with respect to Panama in 1990. Whether or not American military intervention in a sover eign country is beneficial to that country, and, even if such inter
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. gained control of those industries providing basic necessities for the Dominican people
. . . and certain exporting industries . . . Most peo ple . . . feared for their safety, if they did not concur with the 'Benefactor's' plans . . . Trujillo welcomed foreign investment . . . so far as the U. S. was concerned he did not represent a threat . . . It would not be until after 1950, when Trujillo's mount ing economic wealth began to infringe on U. S. invest ments that the Benefactor's days were numbered (Wheaton, 1984b, 421 422).
Regardless of the perspective taken, material and economic progress occurred in the Dominican Republic between 1931 and the end of the Second World War, although economic control became ever more concentrated in the Trujillo family and in
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American interests controlling the country's sugar industry. From the perspective of the typical Dominican citizen, the first sixteen years of Trujillo's rule were perceived posi tively, as they were by the American corporate interests, which continued to increase their stake in the country.
Industrialization came late to the Dominican Republic it did not begin outside of the sugar industry, until the Trujillo period began in 1931 (Wiarda, 1969, 137).
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