Latin America and the United States A Documentary History

by Holden, Robert H.; Zolov, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780195129939
• ISBN10: 0195129938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings togetherthe most important documents on the history of the relationship between theUnited States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. Inaddition to the standard diplomatic sources, the book includes documentstouching on the transnational concerns that are increasingly taught in theclassroom, including economic relations, environmental matters, immigration,human rights, and culture. Among the less frequently cited works reproduced hereare Domingo Sarmiento's nineteenth-century reflection on life in the UnitedStates, the Andrews Sisters' 1944 hit song, "Ru and Coca Cola," Jack Kerouac'sbeatnik observations on Mexico, the U.S. Senate's investigation of CIAassassination plots, and the World Court decision condemning the Reaganadministration's Nicaragua policy. The collection illuminates key issues whilerepresenting a variety of interests and views as they have both persisted andshifte over time, including often-overlooked Latin American perspectives andU.S. public opinion.A special feature of this book is the extensive introductions highlighting thehistorical context and significance of each of the 124 documents. A detailedindex provides the thematic and national cross-referencing that both studentsand instructors will appreciate. Latin America and the United States: ADocumentary History is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses inLatin American history as well as in U.S.-Latin America relations. In addition,it serves as a unique reference tool for foreign policy professionals,international law specialists, journalists, and scholars in a variety ofdisciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
I. TRANSITIONS OF EMPIRE
1811 No Transfer Doctrine The Congress of the United States	5	(2)
1823 Cuba: ``An Apple Severed by the Tempest From Its Native Tree.''	7	(4)
John Quincy Adams
1823 The Monroe Doctrine	11	(4)
James Monroe
1824 The Congress of Panama	15	(2)
Simon Bolivar
1829 The United States: ``Destined to Plague America with Torments''	17	(2)
Simon Bolivar
1845 U.S. Participation in the Brazilian Slave Trade	19	(2)
Henry A. Wise
1845 Texas, Mexico and Manifest Destiny	21	(3)
James K. Polk
1846 President Polk's War Message to Congress	24	(2)
James K. Polk
1846 Bidlack Treaty The Governments of New Granada and the United States	26	(2)
1847 The United States: ``An Inconceivable Extravaganza''	28	(3)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Governments of Mexico and the United States	31	(3)
1850 The Clayton--Bulwer Treaty The Governments of the United States and Great Britain	34	(2)
1854 The Ostend Manifesto	36	(3)
James Buchanan
J.Y. Mason
Pierre Soule
1860 Filibuster	39	(3)
William Walker
1866 Mexico Seeks Support Against a Foreign Aggressor	42	(3)
Matias Romero
1871 Santo Domingo Seeks Annexation by the United States Hamilton Fish	45	(2)
1888 A U.S. Official Interprets Latin America	47	(3)
William Eleroy Curtis
1889 The First Inter-American Conference	50	(5)
James G. Blaine
II. THE COLOSSUS OF THE NORTH
1890 The Lessons of History	55	(4)
Alfred Thayer Mahan
1892 The Baltimore Affair	59	(2)
Benjamin Harrison
1894 The Character of the United States	61	(3)
Jose Marti
1895 The Olney Memorandum	64	(4)
Richard Olney
1896 The Calvo Clause	68	(2)
Carlos Calvo
1898 The Decision to Act Against Spain	70	(2)
William McKinley
1898 The Teller Amendment The Congress of the United States	72	(2)
1898 Anti-Imperialism in the United States	74	(2)
Andrew Carnegie
1898 The Treaty of Paris The Governments of the Untied States and Spain	76	(2)
1900 ``Ariel''	78	(3)
Jose Enrique Rodo
1901 The Platt Amendment The Congress of the United States	81	(2)
1901 The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty The Governments of the United States and Great Britain	83	(1)
1902 Vanity and Ambition on the Rio Grande	84	(4)
Jose Maria Roa Barcena
1902 The Drago Doctrine	88	(2)
Luis M. Drago
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty The Governments of the United States and Panama	90	(2)
1903 ``I Took Final Action in 1903''	92	(3)
Theodore Roosevelt
1904 ``To Roosevelt''	95	(2)
Ruben Dario
1904 Banana Republics	97	(3)
O. Henry
1904 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine	100	(3)
Theodore Roosevelt
1904--05 The Dominican Republic Challenge	103	(1)
Theodore Roosevelt
1912 Managing Nicaragua	104	(3)
Adolfo Diaz
Philander C. Knox
1913 The Pact of the Embassy	107	(3)
Henry Lane Wilson
1913 The Mobile Speech	110	(3)
Woodrow Wilson
1914 The Bryan--Chamorro Treaty The Governments of the United States and Nicaragua	113	(2)
1916 The State Department and Public Opinion	115	(2)
Robert Lansing
1916 Dollar Diplomacy and Social Darwinism	117	(2)
F.M. Huntington Wilson
1917 The Zimmermann Telegram	119	(2)
Alfred Zimmermann
1917 The Jones Act The Congress of the United States	121	(2)
1922 An Argentine Denunciation of Imperialism	123	(2)
Jose Ingenieros
1923 The Bucareli Accords The Governments of Mexico and the United States	125	(3)
1926 A Latin American Doctrine of Anti-Imperialism	128	(2)
Victor Haya de la Torre
1928 A Defense of Intervention	130	(2)
Charles E. Hughes
1928 With Sandino in Nicaragua	132	(3)
Carleton Beals
1928 The Clark Memorandum	135	(6)
J. Reuben Clark
III. BURYING THE BIG STICK
1933 The Good Neighbor Policy	141	(2)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Mission to Havana	143	(3)
Sumner Welles
1933 The United States Accepts the Non-Intervention Principle The Delegates to the Seventh International Conference of American States	146	(3)
1936 Hemispheric Security and Non-Intervention The Delegates to the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace	149	(1)
1938 Just Compensation for the Good Neighbor	150	(3)
Cordell Hull
1938 Populist Diplomacy in Mexico	153	(3)
Josephus Daniels
1938 A Skeptic Views the Good Neighbor Policy	156	(3)
Carleton Beals
1940 Marketing Pan Americanism The U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs	159	(3)
1942 Confronting the Fascist Threat The Delegates to the Third Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics	162	(3)
1942 The Bracero Program The Governments of Mexico and the United States	165	(3)
1943 A Historian Defends U.S. Policy	168	(2)
Samuel Flagg Bemis
1944 ``Rum and Coca-Cola''	170	(3)
Lionel Belasco
1945 The Act of Chapultepec The Delegates to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace	173	(3)
1946 The Blue Book on Argentina (Braden Report)	176	(3)
Spruile Braden
1946 Chilean Labor and U.S. Capital U.S. Department of State	179	(6)
IV. THE COLD WAR
1947 and 1954 A Charter for Covert Action? The Congress of the United States and the Doolittle Committee	185	(2)
1947 The Rio Treaty The Governments of the United States and Latin America	187	(3)
1948 The Charter of the of the Organization of American States The Delegates to the Ninth International Conference of American States	190	(3)
1948 The Menace of Communism The Delegates to the Ninth International Conference of American States	193	(2)
1950 A Realist Views Latin America	195	(3)
George F. Kennan
1950 A New Economic Model for Latin America	198	(3)
Raul Prebisch
1954 Terminating a Revolution in Guatemala---A View from Washington	201	(2)
John C. Dreier
1954 Terminating a Revolution in Guatemala---A View from Guatemala	203	(3)
Luis Cardoza y Aragon
1955 On the Road to Mexico	206	(2)
Jack Kerouac
1956 Taming a Revolution in Bolivia	208	(3)
George Jackson Eder
1957 With Castro in the Sierra Maestra	211	(3)
Herbert L. Matthews
1958 Operation Pan America	214	(2)
Juscelino Kubitschek
1960 The Act of Bogota The Committee of 21	216	(4)
1960 Debating Cuba and Castro	220	(3)
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
1960 Listen, Yankee	223	(3)
C. Wright Mills
1961 The Alliance for Progress	226	(3)
John F. Kennedy
1961 Lessons of the Bay of Pigs	229	(3)
John F. Kennedy
1961 The Charter of Punta del Este The Delegates to the Special Meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council	232	(3)
1961 The Shark and the Sardines	235	(3)
Juan Jose Arevalo
1962 The Hickenlooper Amendment The Congress of the United States	238	(1)
1962 The Principles of Economic Development---According to Washington	239	(3)
Thomas C. Mann
1963 The Wine is Bitter	242	(2)
Milton Eisenhower
1963 The Foco Theory	244	(3)
Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara
1965 Intervention in the Dominican Republic	247	(3)
J. William Fulbright
1966 Two, Three, Many Vietnams	250	(2)
Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara
1967 The Tlatelolco Treaty The Governments of Latin America	252	(3)
1967 The Lost Alliance	255	(3)
Eduardo Frei Montalva
1967 Transferring the Tools of Counterinsurgency	258	(2)
Albert H. Smith Jr.
1967 Songs of Protest from Latin America The First Protest Song Conference	260	(2)
1968 Massacre in Mexico U.S. Department of the State	262	(2)
1969 The Rockefeller Report	264	(3)
Nelson A. Rockefeller
1969 The Principles of Economic Development---According to the Dependentistas	267	(3)
Fernando H. Cardoso
Enzo Faletto
1969 Playa Giron	270	(2)
Silvio Rodriguez
1972 The Culture of Imperialism	272	(4)
Ariel Dorfman
Armand Mattelart
1975 The Church Committee Report on CIA Covert Action U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations	276	(4)
1975 and 1978 Human Rights and Foreign Aid The Congress of the United States	280	(2)
1976 Soft Spots in the ``Brazilian Model''	282	(4)
G.A. Costanzo
1977 The Panama Canal Treaties The Governments of the United States and Panama	286	(3)
1979 Saving the New World from Communism The Committee of Santa Fe	289	(3)
1984 Central America in Revolt: A Reagan Administration View The National Bipartisan Commission on Central America	292	(2)
1984 The Fear of Communism in Central America	294	(3)
Ronald Reagan
1984 Teaching Sabotage The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency	297	(3)
1986 The United States Condemned The International Court of Justice	300	(3)
1986 The Pentagon Prepares for Prolonged War The U.S. Department of Defense	303	(4)
1986 Solidarity	307	(3)
Audrey Seniors
1987 The Esquipulas II Accords The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua	310	(3)
1987 A School of the Americas ``Study Manual'' The U.S. Department of Defense	313	(3)
1988 ``We Say No''	316	(5)
Eduardo Galeano
V. AFTER THE COLD WAR: CONFLICT IN THE SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND
1990 The United States Invades Panama: ``We Never Heard The Truth''	321	(3)
Ramsey Clark
1992 The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development The Delegates to the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development	324	(4)
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement The Governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico	328	(3)
1994 Insurgency After the Cold War The Zapatista Army of National Liberation	331	(2)
1994 Proposition 187 The Voters of California	333	(4)
1994 The Summit of the Americas The Heads of State of Thirty-Four American Nations	337	(3)
1995 Drugs and Democracy in Bolivia Human Rights Watch	340	(3)
1996 Sweat-Shop Labor The Organizacion Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores	343	(4)
1997 The First Americans The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights	347	(4)
Index	351