Editing Good Neighbor policy (section)

==Background==
In the early 20th century, the [[United States]] periodically [[Banana Wars|intervened militarily in Latin American nations]] to protect its interests, particularly the commercial interests of the US business community. After the [[Roosevelt Corollary]] of 1904, whenever the United States felt its debts were not being repaid in a prompt fashion, its citizens' business interests were being threatened, or its access to natural resources was being impeded, military intervention or threats were often used to coerce the respective government into compliance. This made many Latin Americans wary of U.S. presence in their region and subsequently hostilities grew towards the United States.

President Wilson landed U.S. troops in Mexico in 1914, in Haiti in 1915, in the Dominican Republic in 1916, in Mexico a second time in 1916, and in Mexico several additional times before Wilson left office, in Cuba in 1917, and in Panama in 1918. Also, for most of the Wilson administration, the U.S. military occupied Nicaragua, installed a Nicaraguan president that the U.S. preferred, and ensured that the country signed treaties favorable to the U.S.<ref>[[James W. Loewen]], ''[[Lies My Teacher Told Me]]'' (New York: The New Press, 2018), p. 16</ref>