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  • Essay / United States foreign policy involvement with Latin countries...

    Politicians decided that "American foreign policy could be made on the assumption that the unbalanced system could never be effectively resolved by the Central Americans. The United States then continued to integrate Latin America into its political, economic, and military orbit. While the results suggested the challenges and limitations of authoritarian government, U.S. dollars gradually increased their presence in El Salvador, increasing from 18 million investments in 1950 to 31 million in 1959, without much attention to the government style of the diet. (___) In El Salvador, the American task was easy, the United States, to encourage stability, defined as limiting insurrections, simply had to support those in power, the military, the landowning oligarchy and therefore the dictators. Nixon, while vice president in 1955, himself asserting that the question in the Latin American region was "to what extent is dictatorship necessary?" » declared: “we must treat [Latin American] governments as they are and work over a period of time towards more democracy. (Ambrose) But the idea that the United States was involved in Latin America to encourage the creation of democratic institutions capable of implementing reforms and allowing public debate seemed far-fetched, given how including Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon managed the ensuing coup in 1960. President Lemus provoked a full-scale revolution with the massacre of waiting student protesters, moderate military officers staged a coup and overthrew the president. While officers promised to implement reforms promised by liberal generals in the late 1940s and to hold elections in 1962, Eisenhower "found the promises insufficient" and "withheld... middle of paper... ...." __) As unemployment and inflation reinforced poverty throughout the country, particularly in rural suburbs, a new political movement, threatening the long-established oligarchic-military complex, began to arise. develop in cities. When the radio began announcing that opposition PDC candidate Duarte was picking up the votes, the radio was cut off and at the time of transmission, the military government's choice, Molina, was ahead. This blatant fraud encouraged liberal junior officers and jealous senior officers to stage a coup in an attempt to place Duarte in power. After receiving assistance from the forces of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA), created in 1963 under the influence of the United States to protect Central America against "possible communist aggression", and from American military advisers, the top military command suppressed the project. attempted coup d'état. (___) United States