The good neighbor policy was a specific line of American foreign policy formulated for Latin America during the Roosevelt government. It was a new relationship proposal with the continent that fundamentally aimed at erasing the marks of the Big Stick policy that had characterized the previous actions of the United States in the Latin American region.
The conception of the new policy was linked to a combination of factors internal and external to American society. Internally, the rhetoric of good neighborliness was associated with bureaucratic and business political groups that came to power with Roosevelt. Externally, it was supported by the extensive network of economic-financial relations that had been developing in increasing volume between the United States and Latin America.
