After 1870, large landowners in Latin America began to take a more direct interest in national policies and even in governing.
In Argentina and Chile, landowning elites controlled the government, they wrote constitutions, but kept their power by limiting voting rights.
United States emerging world power, interferes in the affairs of its southern hemisphere.
Cuba > protectorate of the U.S. after the Spanish American War of 1898.
U.S. annexed Puerto Rico 1898.
In 1908, the U.S. supported a rebellion that enabled Panama to separate from Colombia.
What will the U.S. now control?