Abstract
When President Johnson ordered troops to land in Santo Domingo, he liquidated by this act 30 years of North American efforts to change the forms of its hemispheric politics. The United States has always thought, as Cleveland said, that it practically had sovereignty over the entire South American continent, but in 1932, when Roosevelt became president, the procedures changed; the brutal and arrogant forms utilized until then, which had found their maximum expression in the other Roosevelt, were exchanged for more subtle means. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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