Talk:Latin America–United States relations

message: Something really ought to be done in regards to the unsourced allegations and conspiracy theories present in the latter half of this article. Can we throw up a neutrality and sources flag? Comrade438 08:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You may of course put a POV template. But that would require pointing out exactly what parts you disagree with, and which sentences you feel need references. Tazmaniacs 18:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV, et al 

message: This page should probably be moved to United States-Latin American relations, because that's the format most articles about relations between two specific countries or regions are in.--Carabinieri 10:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, the current name is ambiguous.- Jor70 10:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Absolutely agree. Bolivian Unicyclist 15:35, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old 

message: I think the first sentence is kind of odd: "The United States has always had a special conception of its relationship with the nations of Latin America."  Don't relationships have to be two-way?  Or is it all about the US's point of view? Steve Dufour 14:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First sentence

message: The introduction to this article is in desperate need of attention. Surely there is more to say than "The United States has always had a special conception of its relationship with the nations of Latin America." ;-) The intro should sum up all main points feature in an article. Signaturebrendel 01:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:LEAD]] 

message: This whole article lacks a neutral POV. It is full of one side ideas and concepts. It should be edited propertly to avoid political comments and opinions and to present facts only. AlexCovarrubias  ( Talk? ) 20:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality tag added 

message: Hi my name is Greg Svishchov and I am a student at the University of Toronto. For one of my courses (Latin American History) my final project consists of contributing to existing Wikipedia entries. My research on the topic of the Panama-U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty has been posted on this page. Please be so kind as to not delete this until after the New Year, once my professor has had a chance to grade my work.
I have pasted the following text on this page under the Bilateral Investemnt Treaty section: 
The Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) is essentially an agreement between the governments of two countries focusing on the reciprocal encouragement, treatment and protection of mutual investments. It is achieved because of the desire to promote economic cooperation between them by creating favorable conditions for investment by nationals and companies of one country in the territory of the other country. The BIT recognizes that the encouragement and protection under international agreement of such investment will be beneficial to the motivation of individual business initiative and will increase prosperity in both countries
Please do not delte this. Thank You kindly,
Greg
:Link to archived version give on user's talk page.  --TeaDrinker 03:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: University Project

message: User:Vanamonde93 and User:Stumink: For what it's worth, as a third opinion, I think  Stumink's edit (since reverted) is fine to me.  Been meaning to attempt to clean this page up for awhile, and Stumink is mostly toning down some hyperbolic phrasing, and the paragraphs removed often had citation needed tags, or were way overwritten.  Granted, Stumink introduced a few new grammar mistakes, but on the whole it's an improvement.
Here's an example:
:Placing their own actions within the US doctrine of "national security" against "internal subversion", really political opposition which shown any sign of participation by students, social movements, unions that were not pro-US and conservative, the authoritarian regimes who had crushed left-wing, progressist and liberal opposition, began a transition to neoliberal economic policies. Chile thus became one of the laboratory of shock therapy, under the supervision of the Chicago boys influenced by Milton Friedman's monetarism.
Not really.  The CIA intervened for fear that Pinochet was somehow an agent of Moscow because they refused to believe that there was such thing as independent socialists, not because Milton Friedman asked for a laboratory; that was incidental.  Similarly the timing is wrong here - Latin America *would* try "neoliberal" policies later, in the 90s, but it was pretty much just Chile in this period - Argentina & Brazil's governments were US-friendly often, but far from paragons of capitalism, and were more vanilla conservative dictatorships / oligarchies.  Basically this was less with the US being capitalist missionaries and more the US attacking anything that they thought might become the second Cuba.
In the same way, the article currently drags on far too long trying to 'prove' the US was behind the 2002 Venezuela coup - which of course is perversely because this probably wasn't true, and hence the need to justify the stance, rather than just blandly state it. SnowFire (talk) 16:37, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Well sure. I'm not saying all the content he removed needs to be kept; I said that his blanking removed some sourced paragraphs that seemed to be fine, and removed content in some places instead of toning it down. So I asked him to discuss it. If he would only take it a little slower, it would be fine. Removed the unsourced stuff. Change the tone. Discuss sourced stuff you want to tweak. Don't simply blank. Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:07, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent reversions 

message: Correction: The U.S. never owned the Panama Canal zone. It remained under Panama by the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty between the U.S. and Panama. It effectively was leased to the U.S.
Norm Mikalac  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:8A:4302:3810:B5BB:2FC:7019:19F9 (talk) 08:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panama Canal ownership 

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message: I quote from the article: '..the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened major war as the Soviet Union installed nuclear weapons in Cuba to defend it from an American invasion. There was no invasion,..'
I don't think it is true that  the Soviet Union 'installed nuclear weapons in Cuba', so the article is wrong, I think, and of course it would have to also be wrong about the hypothetical reason why the Soviet Union did this..DanLanglois (talk) 02:39, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You've got a point, would something along the lines of "the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened major war as the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons in Cuba to in response to U.S. ballistic missiles in Turkey. The crisis ended when both sides agreed to withdraw their weapons." - SantiLak (talk) 04:42, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: Hi guys, I think this sentence is a bit confusing. I would like to change it to this edit, (insert EDIT below.) If anyone has disagreements with my edit, I am happy to talk. I may be interpreting the information wrong. Shelbyhoward423 (talk) 14:11, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing sentence  

message: Hi all, there is a passive voice issue with a portion of the sentence. I am editing it to make sure the subject is “acting,” but if it is interpreted wrong, please change it to read the correct information in active voice. Shelbyhoward423 (talk) 13:58, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tense 

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message: I was reading the section, and it looks like the previous section on the US-Cuban relations bled over the "Military Dictatorship in Brazil" section. The issue is that the Brazil section looks to be around 2 sentences, and I'm not sure whether that should be removed entirely (I'd rather it wouldn't) or just placed correctly. 2804:5F0C:11AB:4A00:297C:AD68:2E97:390 (talk) 21:06, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Military Dictatorship in Brazil" section (under 1960s heading)