Latin America faced few external security threats after the Cold War.
Evidence
After supporting a violent, repressive regime in Honduras and using the country to support even more murderous regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, the United States should have completely withdrawn its bases and forces from Honduras and the rest of Latin America once peace came. There was no need for them in a region facing almost no external security threats or cross-national conflicts. Any humanitarian, training, and counternarcotics operations in Honduras could have been carried out from bases in the United States, just as the military does in many other countries. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 316
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Post-Cold War Latin America faced almost no external security threats warranting U.S. bases (similarity 0.95)
- The US has repeatedly intervened militarily across Latin America for two centuries (similarity 0.78)
- Today’s Central American migrants are blowback from U.S. interventions (similarity 0.78)
- U.S. support for Contras fueled Central America’s dirty wars and migration (similarity 0.78)