IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 943 
Calling for the annulment of the Monroe Doctrine and the development 
of a ‘‘New Good Neighbor’’ policy in order to foster improved relations 
and deeper, more effective cooperation between the United States and 
our Latin American and Caribbean neighbors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 19, 2023 
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ (for herself, Mr. CASAR, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, 
and Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committees on Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Calling for the annulment of the Monroe Doctrine and the 
development of a ‘‘New Good Neighbor’’ policy in order 
to foster improved relations and deeper, more effective 
cooperation between the United States and our Latin 
American and Caribbean neighbors. 
Whereas, 200 years ago, President James Monroe announced 
that the United States Government would actively oppose 
any interference by European powers in the affairs of 
independent Latin American and Caribbean countries 
‘‘for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in 
any other manner their destiny’’; 
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•HRES 943 IH 
Whereas, over time, this policy, referred to as the ‘‘Monroe 
Doctrine’’, came to be interpreted by many United States 
policymakers as a mandate for United States interference 
in the affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries 
in order to protect and promote United States economic 
and political interests, irrespective of tangible threats 
posed by foreign powers; 
Whereas following a period of western expansion of the 
United States, resulting in the massive forced displace-
ment and genocide of Native peoples who originally in-
habited much of North America, United States political 
and business leaders took an increasingly active interest 
in the acquisition of raw materials and in investment op-
portunities in other parts of the Western Hemisphere; 
Whereas, after annexing the territory of Texas, the United 
States invaded Mexico militarily in 1846 and, after de-
feating the Mexican army and occupying Mexico City, ac-
quired 55 percent of Mexico’s territory through the Trea-
ty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848; 
Whereas, in 1898, the United States invaded Puerto Rico 
and Cuba during the Spanish-American War and con-
tinues to maintain control of Puerto Rico as well as a 
piece of territory in Guanta´namo, Cuba, to this day; 
Whereas, from 1898 to 1934, the United States conducted 
military interventions in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nica-
ragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, 
known as the ‘‘Banana Wars’’, in order to advance Amer-
ican financial interests that often came at the expense of 
United States support for dictatorships and flagrant 
human rights violations; 
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•HRES 943 IH 
Whereas, in 1904, President Teddy Roosevelt established the 
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, whereby the 
United States could intervene to ensure the protection of 
United States interests and those of foreign creditors in 
the region, and declared that the United States could ex-
ercise ‘‘international police power’’ in ‘‘flagrant cases of 
such wrongdoing and impotence’’; 
Whereas, in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt an-
nounced the establishment of a ‘‘Good Neighbor’’ policy 
toward the region that sought to emphasize noninterven-
tion, noninterference, and trade in contrast with the pre-
vious policy of using military force to advance United 
States interests; 
Whereas, in 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the 
National Security Act which created the Central Intel-
ligence Agency (CIA) and authorized the agency to begin 
covert action in the region; 
Whereas, in 1953, following Guatemalan President Jacobo 
Arbenz’s actions targeting United States corporation 
United Fruit Company, President Dwight D. Eisenhower 
authorized the CIA to begin Operation PBSuccess, a 
multimillion-dollar project investing in ‘‘psychological 
warfare and political action’’ that led to the coup against 
President Arbenz in 1954; 
Whereas, in 1961, the United States covertly financed opposi-
tion leaders and began seeking military leaders to sup-
port the eventual 1964 coup against Brazilian President 
Joao Goulart which resulted in a 21-year military dicta-
torship in Brazil; 
Whereas the Organization of American States (OAS), 
headquartered in Washington, DC, and funded in large 
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