If we could use one word to describe the American Policy towards Latin and Sotuh American, especially during Roosevelt and Wilson's time, it would be 'Manipulative'.
It was during this time, between Wilson and Rossevelt's Presidency that the American foreign service began to view South America as it's ''backyard''.
American government believed that they had a birth right to interfer in these small countries, even back dictators, topple government and create new countries just to ensure that the countries were also submissive to the United States.
