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Why was central america imperialized

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US military forces were dispatched to Central America and the Caribbean more than 40 times between 1900 and 1933, in order to ensure pliant pro-US governments were in power or, as Theodore Roosevelt put it, 'to show those Dagos that they will have to behave decently'.

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