Many numbers can be tossed around about how much the United States has intervened in Latin American countries. In the case of this map, there have been 56 military interventions - and this does not include our latest poorly thought out venture into Venezuela.
This map also doesn’t include our heavy influence on elections such as the recent one in Honduras. Making every country dark green implies that each has been invaded, but there are very few in the region that have not been. Unfortunately this image is blurry, making the small text hard to read and I have not been able to locate a higher resolution version. It originally came from Liberation News but does not seem to be on that site anymore.
For a less biased take, Wikipedia has a list of nearly 400 military interventions by the United States since 1776. This map shows just the ones carried out under Theodore Roosevelt.
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