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For some reason, it seems that the United States always finds itself involved in Latin American countries such as El Salvador, Costa Rica, or The Dominican Republic. Though the constant reasons that come up always make it seem as if the U.S. is there to help, I wonder at times for the real reasons of it's involvement. With the U.S. being the most dominant superpower of all countries, why would it be so important for them to help out other struggling countries? It must be benefiting from it somehow or, what I feel, perhaps it is trying to quietly control countries through puppet governments and such. It has always been known that possession of power leads to the want of more power. This is certainly the case with the U.S.'s involvement in Latin America. .
I started my research by gathering the things I already knew about this. When pledging Phi Iota Alpha, the entire process is centered on giving a pledge an understanding of who they are, where they come from, and an understanding of what it is to be Latin American. Through that process I was able to learn much about this topic and it was then that I initially got interested. I had learned the history of my country, the Dominican Republic, and was first introduced to the puppet government ran there and all over Latin America. Since then I had always wondered why the U.S. felt it had to be involved in other countries affairs. Why were they constantly trying to quietly run things?.
I was also introduced to the writings of Don Jose Marti and learned his views on the United States" goals for being involved in Latin America. I had a basic knowledge of the problem so I knew a good place to start my research so the very first thing I did was go to my personal library and pulled out a book on Jose Marti. The poet Jose Marti was very famous in Cuba for bringing about the Cuban revolution. He was inspired to do so after having read the great design for the Caribbean written by Secretary of State James G.