¿En defensa de la Doctrina Monroe? Los desencuentros en América Latina entre España y Estados Unidos (1880-1890)

• Main Author: Andrés Sánchez Padilla
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2016-10-01
• Series: Historia Crítica
• Subjects: Spain; United States; Latin America; international law; arbitration; regional cooperation (Thesaurus).
• Online Access: https://appsciso.uniandes.edu.co/pfaciso/hcritica/view_s.php/14245/index.php?id=14245

This article analyzes the role played by the Monroe Doctrine in the disagreements that took place between Spain and the United States in Latin America during the 1880s. Based on diplomatic sources preserved in archives in the United States and Spain, the article argues that these apparently peripheral incidents reveal that the Monroe Doctrine was a lasting, although flexible, principle of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. Sspecifically, the evidence suggests that the motor behind the evolution of the doctrine was U.S. domestic policy.