United States imperialism in Latin America

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US scolds uncooperative partners in war on drugs
The New York Times, 4 March 1995. Certification in the war on drugs, which brings with it development loans from international lending agencies, is hostage to US political interests in Latin America.
Bill Clinton: Yankee Imperialist
Workers World, 30 October 1997. Clinton travelled to Latin America to pressure governments and the U.S. Congress to expand NAFTA. He is proposing a Free Trade Area of the Americas, but met popular resistence.
CIA Sponsors Anti-Terrorism Unit in Bolivia
Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, Weekly News Update on the Americas, 28 June 1998. Press extracts to demonstrate link between U.S. political interests and the war on drugs in Bolivia, which has shifted from use of market forces to political repression of the peasant population and exclusion of labor organizations and interests.
Patents, a New Form of Colonialism?
By Daniel Gatti, IPS, 30 August 1998. Northern corporations patent and sell products derived from freely obtained genetic resources of tropical America. Agriculture and sustainable development in Latin America is based on the almost exclusive use of genetically manipulated seeds produced in the laboratories of TNCs.
The Changing Face of the Drug Trade
By Abraham Lama, IPS, 5 March 1999. The Peruvian government tells Washington that it will not allow the United States to set up an anti-drug military airbase in Peru because the U.S. could not negotiate a base in Panama, although Fujimori supports U.S. intervention in Colombia. Blood samples from Mexico's Yaqui Indians to extract and synthesize an antigen that is then sold.
Latin American Campaign Against US Military Bases in Latin America
From Colombia Support Network, 6 July 1999. The installation of US bases in three Latin American countries, based on the Southern Command's strategy to ensure military control of the region. This strategy consists of establishing Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in Curacao (in the Caribbean), Manta (Ecuador), and Iquitos (in the Peruvian Amazon).
America's ‘civilizing’ efforts?
From the Common Dreams News Center, 17 August 1999. U.S. use of drug war as cover for its intervention in Colombia against popular oppostion to the government.
US Military Influence Growing in Latin America
By Jim Lobe, IPS, 16 December 1999. Current increase in Forward Operating Locations as US develops its military domination of Latin America.
China and the New Monroe Doctrine
By John Linday-Poland, in Panama News, 29 December 1999. With the withdrawal of its troops from Panama, the U.S. must return to economic competition in Panama and the Caribbean without the positive moral influence of the its military's immediate presence. So China now rises to challenge U.S. commercial domination of Latin America, and there is a revival of Monroe Doctrine threats as a tool.
US holds on to areas of influence
By David Carrasco, IPS, 22 December 1999. With the U.S. control of Panama Canal Zone ended, the U.S. is searching for sites from which to launch anti-drug operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Factions in the US Congress want the US government to maintain strategic interests in Panama. The U.S. wants to reestablish control with bases in Aruba, Curacao, Ecuador and Honduras.