Critical Thinking 18-4!

In your opinion should the United States have become involved in the affairs of Colombia, Nicaragua, and Mexico during the early 1900s?

Though interfering with these countries had great benefits for America, I dont think that it was the right thing for Americans to become involved in there affairs. The panama canal, built in a providence in Columbia, was a huge engineering and economic success for our country but the united states had to help organize an entire panama rebellion just to force Columbia to give up there land.
Before the presidency of Wilson, the United States mostly fallowed the policy of staying out of other countries affairs and recognized the country for the policy they had. Wilson on the other hand had a much different idea, he wanted to expanding united states control and spread the idea that all countries should have democracy. Mexico was one country that housed a form of government Wilson despised even calling it a "government of butchers"(p. 569)When Mexico arrested a small group of Americans and then later set them free, Wilson took this as an opportunity to get involved with Mexico in a war. Americans invaded Mexico and battles were fought but there would later have to be peace becuase the US was facing go on to another war. This invasion of Mexico show the idea of how the us government found theres supior and could do and invade anything they wanted because of it and that was just not right.