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it was important beacuse they could trade and would not need to fight them
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The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, which intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The correct answer is "The United States hoped to benefit from problems in Latin America.".
Latin American governments are considered as "faulty democracies" or "pseudo-democracies", as government institutions are constantly threated by external fights for power.
Latin America is also a region with many resources, therefore, by aiding governments in this region. The United States lays a path to good relationships with the regimes that will result in ease in trade relations and foreign investment by private American Enterprises in these countries.