Siekmeier, like other recent historians, questions the assumption that US policy toward Latin America after World War II was driven by the Cold War and the need to combat communism in the Western Hemisphere. Rather, he finds, US officials feared economic nationalism there because it derived from native patriotism and advocated self-determination and indigenous programs shaped to help the masses. This, of course, lay counter to US trade and financial interests in the region, which included having outside countries paying ...
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Siekmeier, like other recent historians, questions the assumption that US policy toward Latin America after World War II was driven by the Cold War and the need to combat communism in the Western Hemisphere. Rather, he finds, US officials feared economic nationalism there because it derived from native patriotism and advocated self-determination and indigenous programs shaped to help the masses. This, of course, lay counter to US trade and financial interests in the region, which included having outside countries paying tariffs, no home-grown industry to compete with US companies, and tame governments that would protect US business concerns. The study may have been his doctoral dissertation for Cornell U.
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