在整个二十世纪，美国总是在不时干预拉美颠覆和推翻不为它所喜的政府：古巴、尼加拉瓜、多米尼克、巴拿马、危地马拉、海地、萨尔瓦多、智利、格林纳达莫不如此，以上只是比较著名的例子。
Throughout the twentieth century, the US intervened repeatedly in Latin America to topple or subvert governments it did not like: in Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Chile, and Grenada, to name only the most prominent cases.