Cold War: Cuba and Latin America
There were several motives for United States policy in Latin America during the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Some of these motives included the applying of the policy of containment in Latin American to halt the spread of communism. Another motive was to halt the turning confederation between Cuba and the Soviet Union. All of these motives were set in topographic point to avoid the development of a 2nd Cuba in Latin America. It was pressing for the United States to move since now there was Soviet Union presence in Latin America offering to be an ally. The United States had legion justifications for the constabularies that it followed during it’s presence in Latin America. One of them being President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. The United States offered Latin America states that were developing economically assistance ; this was a method of using the policy of containment. The United States need to halt communism motivated them to go through the Alliance for Progress. The United States justified the policy by reasoning that they needed to hold a policy in Latin America that went beyond the Roosevelt Corollary. After 1959. the United State was still devoted to fring Fidel Castro’s presence from Cuba. The United States policy shapers saw the confederation between Cuba and Soviet Union as unsafe thing. peculiarly after the critical Cuban Missile Crisis.

In the Dominican Republic. the Johnson Administration justified the blackwash of Rafael Trujillo since his absolutism had become a liability to the United States. Trujillo was at one point a United States ally because he was willing to protect its involvements but he was cruel to his ain people and the United States feared he would trip a revolution in the Dominican Republic. much like the 1 that had brought Fidel Castro to power. There were many things that the United States ignored as it followed the constabularies that they had enacted. One. being the deficiency of grounds that there was a relationship between Castro and the Soviet Union before 1959. Another being that the Alliance for Progress was modeled on the Marshall Plan for Western Europe but Latin America was non Western Europe ( 92 ) . There was besides the contradiction between the Alliance for Progress. that it was nice than the method that it followed in Latin America during the 1960’s.