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Chapter 1
Download All- Theodorick Bland, On the Condition of South America, 1818
- John Quincy Adams, Independence and Recognition, 1823
- James Monroe, The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
- José María Tornel y Mendivíl, The Character of the United States, 1837
- John Louis O’Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity, 1839
- Albert M. Gilliam, Travels over the Table Lands and Cordilleras of Mexico, 1843
- George Wilkins Kendall, The Texan Santa Fé Expedition, 1844
- James K. Polk, War Message, 1846
- Caleb Smith, Odious Hostilities with a Neighboring Republic, 1846
- National Songs Relating to the War, 1846
- Abraham Lincoln, Spot Resolution, 1857
- An Officer in the Service of Walker, The Destiny of Nicaragua, 1856
- Juan R. Mora, To Arms!, 1855, 1856
- Michael James Box, A Sort of Pre-Emption Right, 1869
- Francisco Bilbao, The Independence of the United States, 1858
- José Pedro Varela, Captivated by New York, 1868
Chapter 2
Download All- Josiah Strong, Our Country and its Possible Future, 1885
- Frederick J. Turner, The Frontier in American History, 1893
- Richard Olney, The United States is Practically Sovereign on this Continent, 1895
- Charles A. Conant, The Economic Basis for Imperialism, 1898
- José Martí, Reply to New York Evening Post, 1889
- William McKinley, Requesting a Declaration of War with Spain, 1898
- William V. Allen, Cuba Must Be Free, 1898
- The Hartford Post, Their Real Feeling, 1898
- A&B, In Defense of General Weyler, 1898
- Spanish-American War Songs, 1898
- Francis G. Newlands, Inviting Cuba to Become a State, 1903
- Philippe Bunau-Varilla, Nicaragua or Panama, 1901
- Manifesto on Panamanian Independence, 1903
- Abelardo Aldana, A Plea for Colombia, 1903
- Three Editorials about Panama, 1904
- Elihu Root, The Ethics of the Panama Question, 1904
- Theodore Roosevelt, Three Panama Messages, 1906
Chapter 3
Download All- Harper’s Weekly, Germany in Latin America, 1902 and 1903
- Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
- Domingo B. Castillo, Venezuela Would March to the Pyre, 1905
- William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy, 1912
- Woodrow Wilson, We Must Show Ourselves Friends, 1913
- The Platt Amendment, 1901
- Julián González, Martín Morúa Delgado on the Platt Amendment, 1902
- Elihu Root, We Have Become the Guarantors of Cuban Independence, 1904
- Philander C. Knox, Letter to the Nicaraguan Chargé, 1909
- José María Moncada, Imperialism and the Monroe Doctrine, 1911
- Julián González, Martín Morúa Delgado on the Platt Amendment, 1902
- George C. Thorpe, Everywhere in the Island the Troops Make Friends, 1920
- Charles E. Chapman, An American Experiment in Nicaragua, 1922
- Samuel Guy Inman, Imperialistic America, 1924
- A Haitian View of the Occupation, 1927
- James Creelman, President Diaz: Hero of the Americas, 1908
- Woodrow Wilson, The Flag of the United States Should be Saluted, 1914
- Rafael de Zayas Enriquez, The Policy of President Wilson, 1914
- Venustiano Carranza, A Violation of the Sovereignty of Mexico, 1916
- Manuel de la Pena, Mexico is Evolving, 1920
- T. Esquivel Obregón, The Mexican People Can Govern Themselves, 1920
Chapter 4
Download All- Frederick Upham Adams, Conquest of the Tropics, 1914
- Horacio Bossi Cáceres, Julio Zamora, and José Corbacho, Pan-American Commerce, 1919
- Harry F. Guggenheim, Building Mining Cities, 1920
- W. E. Aughinbaugh, Advertising for Trade in Latin America, 1922
- Gabriella Mistral, Foreign Films About Mexico, 1926
- F. C. Lona, Base Ball in Mexico, 1927
- César Vallejo, New Poetry, 1926
- Olympio Guilherme, Facial Expressions ‘Made in USA’, 1928
- Sidney Sutherland, Havana Succeeds Florida, 1928
- Stuart Chase, The Yankee Invasion (Symbolically Speaking), 1931
Chapter 5
Download All- José Enrique Rodó, Ariel, 1900
- Rubén Darío, Two Poems, 1904 and 1906
- Henry Gil, The Point of View of Latin America, 1911
- Manuel Ugarte, The Future of Latin America, 1912
- José Vasconcelos, The Cosmic Race, 1925
- Roque Sáenz Peña, Let America be for Humanity, 1890
- Luis M. Drago, The Drago Doctrine, 1902
- Alejandro Álvarez, American Problems in International Law, 1919
- R. Martínez Perdomo, The Warning of Mr. Kellogg, 1925
- Federico Penado, Salvadoran Manifesto, 1913
- Carleton Beals, With Sandino in Nicaragua, 1928
Chapter 6
Download All- J. Ruben Clark, Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine, 1928
- Herbert Hoover and Vicente Mejía Colindres, The Relations of Good Neighbors, 1929
- Ernest Gruening, The Withdrawal from Haiti, 1934
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, A Fine Relationship, 1935
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Faith of the Americas, 1936
- Lázaro Cárdenas, The Oil Expropriation, 1938
- Eduardo Hay and Cordell Hull, Prompt, Adequate, and Effective Payment, 1938
- Donald R. Richberg, The Mexican Oil Seizure, 1939
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Good Neighborliness and Fascism, 1938
- Vincete Lombardo Toledano, Two Nations - One Ideal, 1942
- Manuel José Méndez Guardia, Latin American Youth Looks at the United States, 1942
- George C. Dunham, The Cooperative Health Program, 1944
- Some Specific Suggestions for Inter-American Programs, 1944
Chapter 7
Download All- The Act of Chapultepec, 1945
- The Rio Pact, 1947
- George Kennan, Some Views About Latin America, 1950
- NSC 144/1, 1953
- Central Intelligence Agency, Planning for a Revolution in Guatemala, 1952
- Proclamation by the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry, 1954
- Edmund S. Whitman, How an American Company Has Combatted Communism, 1955
- Herbert L. Matthews, Cuban Rebel is Visited in Hideout, 1957
- Fidel Castro, There Was No Coup Here, 1959
- Fidel Castro, At the United Nations, 1960
- Fidel Castro, We Have Destroyed the Invasion, 1961
- John F. Kennedy, Cuba Must Not Be Abandoned to the Communists, 1961
- Jorge Castellanos, Cuba and the Destiny of the United States, 1962
- Manuel Antonio de Verona, The Drama of Cuba, 1962
- Operation Mongoose, 1962
- John F. Kennedy, Address on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, 1962
- Anatoly Dobrynin, R. Kennedy Invited Me to Come See Him, 1962
- Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev, Show Patience, Restraint, and More Restraint, 1962
- Anastas Mikoyan and Fidel Castro, The Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Cuba, 1962
- Nikita Khrushchev, We Have Things to Talk About, 1963
Chapter 8
Download All- Raúl Prebisch, Economic Development of Latin America, 1950
- M. F. Millikan and W. W. Rostow, The Constructive Tasks of Modernization, 1958
- Vice President Richard Nixon’s Trip to Latin America, 1958
- Operation Pan-America, 1959
- Act of Bogota, 1960
- John F. Kennedy, The Alliance for Progress, 1961
- The Charter of Punta del Este, 1961
- Ernesto Guevara, Cuba Interprets this as a Political Conference, 1961
- Philip A. Ray, South Wind Red, 1962
- William Benton, Latin Americans Must Do Their Part, 1962
- Roberto Alemann, Free Trade, 1962
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Communist Potentialities in Latin America, 1964
- Juscelino Kubitschek, Latin America Today, 1966
- Eduardo Frei, The Alliance that Lost its Way, 1967
- Rockefeller Report, 1969
Chapter 9
Download All- José Luis Cuevas, The Cactus Curtain, 1957
- José A. Mora, Will Latin America Continue to Adhere to the West?, 1961
- Miguel Angel Asturias, Strong Wind, 1962
- Angelo Eagon, Overseas with American Music, 1965
- David Rockefeller, What Private Enterprise Means to Latin America, 1966
- Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck, 1971
- Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Toward a Third Cinema, 1971
- Jorge Sanjines, Cinema and Revolution, 1971
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Social Commitment and the Latin American Writer, 1977
- Emilio Rodriguez Vazquez and Carlos Vincente Ibarra, Filmmaking in Nicaragua, 1980
Chapter 10
Download All- Andre Gunder Frank, The Development of Underdevelopment, 1966
- Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America, 1973
- Ernesto Guevara, Fernando Volio, Alfonso Ortega Urbina, Aquilino Boyd, Ignacio Iribarren Borges, and Germán Zea, To Refute Cuban Allegations, 1964
- Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams, 1967
- Inti Peredo, My Campaign with Che, 1970
- Revolutionary Workers Party of Argentina, Character of the Revolutionary War, 1971
- Norman Pietri, The Question of Puerto Rico, 1966
- Raúl Leoni, View from Caracas, 1965
- OPEC Founding Resolutions, 1960
- Claudio Veliz, Crisis in Panama, 1964
- Miguel Moreno and Ellsworth Bunker, Panama’s Case is America’s Case, 1964
- Report on the Events in Panama, 1964
- Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, 1971
Chapter 11
Download All- Henry A. Kissinger, Opposing Allende and Preventing his Consolidating Power, 1970
- Régis Debray, Conversations with Allende, 1971
- Covert Action in Chile, 1975
- Jimmy Carter, A Foreign Policy for Humane Purposes, 1977
- Mark L. Schneider, Governments Weigh the Costs of Repression, 1978
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Dictatorships & Double Standards, 1979
- Sister Patricia Jacobson, God Came to El Salvador, 1980
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Nicaragua’s New Dictators, 1983
- The Boland Amendment and Report, 1983
- Daniel Ortega, Where Are the Successes of American Policy?, 1983
- Henri Nouwen, Christ is Risen – He is Risen Indeed, 1984
- National Security Council, Third Party Funding for the Anti-Sandinistas, 1984
- Robert Gates, Talk Absolutely Straight About Nicaragua, 1984
- Ronald Reagan, Speaking Out for the Cause of Religious Liberty, 1985
- Gustavo Parajón, Evangelicals in Nicaragua, 1985
- Jorge Ramírez Zelaya, Being a Terrorist, 1985
- Daniel Ortega, The Peoples Do Not Want Rambos, 1987
Chapter 12
Download All- Milton Friedman, The Fragility of Freedom, 1976
- Orlando Letelier, Economic ‘Freedom’s’ Awful Toll, 1976
- John Williamson, The Washington Consensus, 1990
- Ross Perot, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, A Giant Job-Sucking Sound Going South, 1992
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari, A Win/Win/Win Situation, 1993
- M. Delal Baer, Misreading Mexico, 1997
- Andres Pastrana, Plan Colombia, 1999
- Bill Clinton, This is Not Vietnam; Neither is it Yankee Imperialism, 2000
- Manuel Noriega, To the Panamanians What is Panama’s, 1989
- George H. W. Bush, I Ordered Military Forces to Panama, 1989
- Southern Command Network, Welcome to the Jungle, 1989
- Teaching Coercive Techniques, 1983, 1992
Chapter 13
Download All- Néstor García Canclini, Latins or Americans, 1998
- Hugo Chavez, The Devil Came Here Yesterday, 2006
- José Mujica, Civilization Against Freedom, 2013
- Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel, 2013
- Bruno Rodríguez and Fidel Castro, Two Cuban Views on U.S. Diplomacy, 2015/2016
- Barack Obama, I have Come to Bury the Last Remnant of the Cold War in the Americas, 2016
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, Shameful Overtures, 2016
- Boniface Alexandre and the UN Security Council, Bring Security and Stability, 2004
- Gerard Latortue and Colin Powell, We Have a Game Plan, 2004
- Thomas Tancredo, Illegal Immigration, 2003
- Carlos A, Alex B., Monica C., and Marvin G., How My Mom Got Here, 2005
- Stephen Colbert, My Vast Experience, 2010