Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Corporate influence on American foreign policy escalated in the first half of the twentieth century, and depended on right-wing autocrats around the globe to maintain stability, anti-Bolshivism, and, McSherry observes, "openness to U.S. capitalist expansion." Industry in the U.S. "increasingly sought raw materials and markets in Latin America. " The early part of the twentieth century was marked by U.S. intervention in much of Central America and the Caribbean (Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere)." |