Question

Which two statements provide examples of US intervention in Latin American affairs? A:The United States helped overthrow the leader of Chile.
B:The United States refused to help fight drug cartels.
C: The United States backed rulers who helped US corporations.
D: The United States executed Oscar Romero.

Answer 1

The correct answers are A) The U.S. helped overthrow the leader of Chile and C) The U.S. backed rulers that helped U.S. corporations.

The two statements that provide examples of U.S. intervention in Latin America are the U.S. helped overthrow the leader of Chile and The U.S. backed rulers that helped U.S. corporations.  

During many years, the United States Foreign policy in Latin America was interventionist. For instance, the U.S. supported the Independence of Panama in 1903, invaded the Dominican Republic in 1916, occupated Nicaragua in 1912, sent troops to the Northern Mexican territory to hunt Pancho Villa, occupated Haiti in 1915, and tried to depose Fidel Castro from the Presidency of Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.