Editing Good Neighbor policy (section)

=== Background ===
While working under President Wilson, Roosevelt had perpetuated ideas of American racial superiority by believing that the people of Latin American were incapable of self-government.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Friedman |first=Max Paul |date=2018-01-24 |title=The Good Neighbor Policy |url=https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-222 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.222|isbn=978-0-19-936643-9 }}</ref> However, by 1928 he had switched his point of view, becoming an advocate for cooperation.<ref name=":1" />

The [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] meant that trade with foreign countries had suffered a massive blow, so the U.S. government were actively trying to find a way to compensate for it.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Inman |first=Samuel Guy |date=1957 |title=The Rise and Fall of the Good Neighbor Policy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45309699 |journal=Current History |volume=32 |issue=188 |pages=193–199 |doi=10.1525/curh.1957.32.188.193 |jstor=45309699 |s2cid=248850598 |issn=0011-3530|url-access=subscription }}</ref>