The US has repeatedly intervened militarily across Latin America for two centuries

Evidence

In Honduras, U.S. forces have intervened or occupied the country eight times—in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1920, 1924, and 1925.4 The U.S. military also intervened militarily in the nearby Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama, in some cases occupying them for decades at a time. (There’s a reason many of today’s best baseball players come from Latin America.) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in causal impacts of military power projection; the parenthetical on baseball is a sly detail linking occupation to cultural export.