Domingo Sarmiento’s letter, “The United States: “An Inconceivable Extravaganza” ” and the Ostend Manifesto has led to two complex responses from the Latin American nations towards the aggressive U.S expansionist policy and the failures of maintaining political stability within their countries. While the Ostend Manifesto had unanimously proclaimed that the U.S would take Cuba by force if the Spanish refused to sell, Sarmiento’s letter expresses support to replicate on some aspects of U.S society. These documents reveal the growing fears of U.S domination in Latin America as the U.S realist foreign policy of expansionism has led to the U.S-Mexican war in the mid-1840s and the support of multilateral policy to address these events. In addition,
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Sarmiento express mix opinions about the United States for he was impressed by many aspects of American society such as the “appearance of equality in education”, success in limited democracy, social mobility and high esteem for the working class while being critical to the South’s use of slavery, which serves to become a reminder of the colonial past, and ridicule towards U.S’ chauvinism (Holden and Zolov, 29-30). This letter reveals the necessity to maintain political stability for years of violent political revolutions has weaken their economy and has left many Latin American nations to become vulnerable to foreign intervention. As a result, many Latin American nations such as Mexico, or Argentina began to follow the ideals of Positivism with different methods where nations rule under a democracy or a dictatorship. It also affected foreign policy for maintaining stability allowed the economy to grow through the use of trade and foreign investors and prevent meeting the same faith as the African nations since their isolationist policy and political instability had left them vulnerable to European
Sarmiento express mix opinions about the United States for he was impressed by many aspects of American society such as the “appearance of equality in education”, success in limited democracy, social mobility and high esteem for the working class while being critical to the South’s use of slavery, which serves to become a reminder of the colonial past, and ridicule towards U.S’ chauvinism (Holden and Zolov, 29-30). This letter reveals the necessity to maintain political stability for years of violent political revolutions has weaken their economy and has left many Latin American nations to become vulnerable to foreign intervention. As a result, many Latin American nations such as Mexico, or Argentina began to follow the ideals of Positivism with different methods where nations rule under a democracy or a dictatorship. It also affected foreign policy for maintaining stability allowed the economy to grow through the use of trade and foreign investors and prevent meeting the same faith as the African nations since their isolationist policy and political instability had left them vulnerable to European