United States interventions in Latin America

All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Cold War in Latin America	4
United States interventions in Latin America canonical	3
U.S. Marine Corps interventions in Central America	1
U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America	1
U.S. interventions in Central America and the Caribbean	1
United States expansion in the Caribbean	1
United States foreign interventions in Latin America	1
United States intervention in Cuba	1
United States intervention in Honduras	1
United States involvement in Latin America	1
United States involvement in the Contra War	1
United States involvement in the Haitian crisis of the 1990s	1
United States occupation of Haiti	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1894622 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: United States interventions in Latin America
Context triple: [Operation Power Pack, partOf, United States interventions in Latin America]

A. United States–Cuba relations
United States–Cuba relations encompass the historically tense and often adversarial diplomatic, economic, and political interactions between the two countries, shaped by Cold War conflicts, embargoes, and intermittent attempts at normalization.
B. United States territorial expansion
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
C. Operation Just Cause
Operation Just Cause was the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama aimed at deposing military leader Manuel Noriega and securing American strategic interests in the region.
D. Central American independence movement
The Central American independence movement was a regional struggle in the early 19th century through which the provinces of Central America broke from Spanish colonial rule and briefly formed a unified federation before evolving into separate nation-states.
E. Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: United States interventions in Latin America
Target entity description: United States interventions in Latin America comprise a long history of political, military, and covert actions by the U.S. government aimed at influencing the governance, economics, and strategic orientation of countries throughout the Latin American region.

A. United States–Cuba relations
United States–Cuba relations encompass the historically tense and often adversarial diplomatic, economic, and political interactions between the two countries, shaped by Cold War conflicts, embargoes, and intermittent attempts at normalization.
B. United States territorial expansion
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
C. Operation Just Cause
Operation Just Cause was the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama aimed at deposing military leader Manuel Noriega and securing American strategic interests in the region.
D. Central American independence movement
The Central American independence movement was a regional struggle in the early 19th century through which the provinces of Central America broke from Spanish colonial rule and briefly formed a unified federation before evolving into separate nation-states.
E. Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States foreign relations ⓘ foreign policy practice ⓘ historical phenomenon ⓘ
hasActor	United States government ⓘ
hasComponent	covert operation ⓘ diplomatic pressure ⓘ economic intervention ⓘ military intervention ⓘ regime change operation ⓘ
hasConsequence	anti-American sentiment in Latin America ⓘ destabilization of local political systems ⓘ human rights abuses ⓘ long-term economic dependency ⓘ strengthening of authoritarian regimes ⓘ
hasDoctrinalBasis	Eisenhower Doctrine ⓘ Monroe Doctrine ⓘ Reagan Doctrine ⓘ Roosevelt Corollary ⓘ linked to: Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Truman Doctrine ⓘ
hasMethod	CIA covert operations ⓘ direct military invasion ⓘ economic sanctions ⓘ political and electoral interference ⓘ support for proxy forces ⓘ training of foreign security forces ⓘ
hasMotivation	containment of communism ⓘ control of strategic resources ⓘ maintenance of regional hegemony ⓘ protection of U.S. economic interests ⓘ protection of U.S.-owned corporations ⓘ
hasRegion	Latin America ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ
includesEvent	Alliance for Progress programs ⓘ linked to: Alliance for Progress Banana Wars ⓘ Bay of Pigs Invasion ⓘ CIA involvement in 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état ⓘ Operation Condor support activities ⓘ Plan Colombia ⓘ U.S. invasion of Grenada ⓘ linked to: Operation Urgent Fury U.S. invasion of Panama ⓘ linked to: Operation Just Cause U.S. involvement in 1973 Chilean coup d'état ⓘ U.S. involvement in the Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ U.S. involvement in the Honduran military buildup in the 1980s ⓘ U.S. involvement in the Mexican–American War ⓘ U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War ⓘ U.S. involvement in the Spanish–American War ⓘ U.S. occupation of Cuba ⓘ linked to: Second Occupation of Cuba U.S. occupation of Haiti ⓘ U.S. occupation of Nicaragua ⓘ linked to: United States occupation of Nicaragua U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic ⓘ linked to: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic U.S. support for Contras in Nicaragua ⓘ U.S. support for anti-Castro operations in Cuba ⓘ U.S. support for military governments in Argentina ⓘ U.S. support for military governments in Brazil ⓘ U.S. support for military governments in Chile ⓘ U.S. support for military governments in Paraguay ⓘ U.S. support for military governments in Uruguay ⓘ U.S. support for right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia ⓘ U.S. support for the 2009 Honduran coup d'état ⓘ

How these facts were elicited