1st Pan-American Conference
SINCE its take-off as a nation, the United States of America has always
countered the ideology of Latin American unity and integration with its
pretensions for continental domination, an ambition expressed on
December 2, 1823 in the famous Monroe Doctrine and synthesized in the
phrase: "America for the Americans." It was not until the final quarter
of the 19th century that that philosophy could be put into practice,
when the unprecedented growth akoya pearl necklace
of its national industry transformed the United States into a rapidly
rising power, with which it proposed not only domination of the
continent but to launch itself into the battle for a new division of
the world.
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U.S. government convened the 1st Pan-American Conference, which was the
starting point of "Panamericanism," perceived as the economic and
political domination of the Americas under a supposed "continental
unity." That implied an updating of the Monroe Doctrine at the point
when U.S. capitalism arrived at its imperialist phase. José Martí, an
exceptional witness to the emergence of the imperialist monster, posed
the question in relation to that conference: "Why go as allies, in the wholesale pearl jewelry
finest years of one’s youth, to the battle that the United States is
preparing to wage with the rest of the world?" and he was right. From
1899 to 1945, in eight similar conferences, three consultation meetings
and a number of conferences on special issues, the advance of U.S.
economic, political and military penetration in Latin America was
established.