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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:12:14PM -0400, Alan MacHett wrote:
> but, Lo!, a Web search for "US invasion 'Dominican Republic' 1965" returns
> pages and pages of results.
> 
> ...so which is it?  Is this common knowledge and I'm an idiot because I
> fell asleep that day in class?  Or is this yet another instance of
> "selective history"?

Is there any part of Latin America or the Caribbean we /haven't/ invaded
at one point or another, in one form or another? Sure, maybe Costa Rica.
But I think the US has has a hand in setting policy and determining
local governance in the region for over a hundred and fifty years or
more; little chunk of paper called the Monroe Doctrine, no?

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