Under the Roosevelt Corollary, the United States claimed the right to assume police power in Latin America.
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that President Theodore Roosevelt created in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. According to the Corollary, the United States will intervene in conflicts between the European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers.
