Wilson sought to move away from the foreign policy of his predecessors, which he viewed as imperialistic, and he rejected Taft's Dollar Diplomacy. Despite expressing that, he frequently intervened in Latin American affairs, saying in 1913: "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." In 1901 he had written that "underdeveloped countries" should be brought to accept and embrace the social order and norms of the industrialized countries. Among those norms was the concept of free enterprise. As the situation in Mexico devolved into civil war, this meant specifically no expropriations or confiscations of property and the continuation of the privileges extended to U.S. business interests during the 31 years of rule by Porfirio Díaz. The Wilson administration sent troops to occupy the Dominican Republic, intervene in the Mexican Revolution, and intervene in Haiti, and Wilson also authorized military interventions in Cuba, Panama, and Honduras.