Logo: cartoon - emerging U.S.

Question SA-8. Here is the text reference (p. 159/2):

The earliest significant expression of a Latin American policy toward Latin America was, as we have noted previously, the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which because of United States weakness and distraction by other problems was not enforced for most of the 19th Century. Thus, the British taking of the Falkland/ Malvinas Islands (1833), Spanish raids on the Pacific Coast of South America (1850's and 60's) and French intervention in Mexico in the mid 1860's were not countered by any effective U.S. action.