The logo
for Lesson 11 is a caudillo
From outside came the threat of the Holy Alliance (made
up of conservative absolutist monarchies in Europe) to restore the Spanish
colonial system by force. This threat was one of the reasons for the U.S.
declaration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, although the United States had
little power to enforce it for many years. The Monroe Doctrine was a unilateral
US declaration of policy, taken without consultation with the rest of the
Hemisphere. Latin American critics of the Doctrine also argue that its first
violation occurred when Great Britain took the Falklands/ Malvinas Islands
by force in 1833, and that the US did nothing to stop it.