ABSTRACT
In the 1870s, the Bolivarian dream of Hispanic Inter-American solidarity was revived and was extended into a Pan-Americanism that included the United States (US) – most notably by Argentine writer, educator, diplomat, and President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and US Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Blaine managed to convince US Americans of the business prospects that Latin America held, and his activities led to the expression “Pan-Americanism” coming into common parlance in the 1880s. Lockey traces its first usage in print to the New York Evening Post issue of March 5, 1888. The USA originally promoted Pan-Americanism for economic and commercial reasons – often on the verge of economic imperialism. After the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the US government’s interpretation of Pan-Americanism changed quickly toward efforts geared at US hegemony – in military terms. The notion of Pan-Americanism has been invested with very different meanings at different times, in different places, and in different political/social/academic circles in the Americas.
