Editing Good Neighbor policy (section)

=== Significance ===
Good Neighbor diplomacy during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency had alleviated some of the tensions that were caused by the United States being a previously bad neighbor. The earlier policies regarding U.S. military intervention and supervision under the Monroe Doctrine were unpopular with Latin Americans, since it was perceived as an invasive foreign policy measure.<ref>{{Cite book |last=LaFeber |first=Walter |title=Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |year=1993 |location=New York |page=81}}</ref> For example, U.S. President William Howard Taft used dollar diplomacy and dispatched 2,700 Marines to Nicaragua in order to suppress a revolution against the government of President [[Adolfo Díaz]], which was directly threatening U.S. economic interests in Central America. After the United States successfully suppressed the revolution, Taft left Marines in Nicaragua to hinder and deter any other potential uprisings against the Díaz government.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herring |first=George |title=The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893–2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |location=New York |page=75}}</ref> Roosevelt opposed U.S. intervention in Nicaragua, since he understood that Latin Americans opposed U.S. intervention and he viewed the Monroe Doctrine as a cooperative effort rather than an aggressive U.S. foreign policy measure.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Gellman |first=Irwin |title=Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933–1945 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2019 |location=Baltimore |pages=11, 38–39, 76–78}}</ref> Being a Good Neighbor became synonymous with non-intervention, even though non-intervention had its exceptions. The United States did adhere to non-intervention when U.S. interests were not directly threatened, but the United States did continue to intervene when it was deemed necessary, such as having U.S. military personnel stationed within the Panama Canal Zone.<ref name=":3" /> Nevertheless, Good Neighbor diplomacy was an important collective effort between the United States and Latin America, which fostered a spirit of cooperation and produced a sense of hemispheric solidarity amongst each other as seen with the Declaration of Lima.<ref name=":3" />