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Question SA-13. Here is the text reference (p. 152/2):
Despite these escapist tendencies, Modernism, like Romanticism, also
had a political side. This can be seen in some of the poetry of Rubén
Darío ("Walt Whitman", "To Roosevelt") and especially
in the essays of Rodó ("Ariel"). The principal political
theme is the ambivalence of Latin America toward the United States, very
evident after the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Independence of Panama
in 1903. There was great admiration for the energy, efficiency, work and
dynamism of the powerful Anglo-Saxon neighbor to the north, but at the same
time there was much concern over the growing US tendency toward imperialism,
intervention, and excessive emphasis on material things.