Steve’s Reviews > Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent > Status Update

"This behavior earned the United State a reputation all over Latin America as the 'Colossus of the North', an international bully. A pattern that had started informally in Mexico in 1848 gradually became national policy. The United States used its muscle to prop up dictators who kept order by suppressing democratic movements. Thus the North Americans sponsored such beastly tyrannies as those of the Somoza family..."