... United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very ... to promote such interests. The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas empire rivaling that ...

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... mainly due the Chile's long-going history of democratic tradition and its government's stability. The result of this was that Chile was largely economically dependant on the US. In the early 1960's, a figure emerged in Chilean politics, which began to worry the USA. Salvador Allende was the leader of a left-wing coalition party. The US suspected Allende of favouring the nationalisation of private sectors, including the copper mines ... by national interest than ideological believes. The US wished to protect its investments in Chile from nationalisation. America's policy towards Chile wa...

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... to do the physical labor themselves; instead African slaves were brought to the New World in order to work on the plantations. When the situation arose that African slaves didn't adapt to the conditions properly, Native Indians were forced to labor. This subjugation of Africans and the indigenous populations has had dramatic effects on society. As most regions emancipated the ... slaves sometime in the mid eighteenth century, a social pyramid developed where white elite's at the top, mulatto landowners and poor whites ... the country to identify itself with Spanish and European ideals ...

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