ABSTRACT
In several instances, US marines intervened in Latin American countries to deal with local instability and then stayed in long-term occupations that managed the functions of local government. US leaders justified these interventions, in part, by repeating language about their belief in their nation's inherent superiority and referring to their expectation that a larger US international role would help promote economic growth. This chapter shows some people in Central America and the Caribbean, especially elites, welcomed a greater US role. The Roosevelt Corollary led to significantly greater US financial involvement in the region, and created Dollar Diplomacy, a policy often associated with President William Howard Taft, who supported US interventions on different grounds than Roosevelt. In the Dominican Republic, as in Cuba, one form of intervention led to another. The dynamics of the Haitian intervention of 1915 shared elements with those in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. In addition to Haiti, President Wilson also launched interventions in Mexico.
