how do you think the United States took advantage of latin america?

Answer 1

By coming across a land-bridge from Asia and taking possession of all the land and driving species to extinction and waging war...oh, wait, those were the native Americans. Okay, then spreading disease and enslaving the native populations to work in the gold mines for the glory of...oh, no, wait again, that was Portugal and Spain. Okay, by inviting in settlers to work the land and then threatening to take away the land from the settlers who worked it and then losing the war for independence with those settlers and then reneging on the peace treaty ...oh, no wait that was Mexico.
Oh, I know. By sending jobs to Latin America and providing billions in wages each year which could be paid to Americans. By also providing jobs in America to illegal aliens who then send that money back to their home countries. By providing the world's largest market for Latin American goods. I could go on for a while here.

Answer 2

Excellent question. First, let me say, that the US acts as a hyper-power, because it is one. Second, states behave according to their position in the global community. For example more powerful states exert their power over lesser states. This is the dance of international politics. It is inherently unfair to weaker states, but it is reality. This is because a state's purpose is to enact policies that are best for its citizens, not that benefit another country's people. Thus, we can see the same behavior in previous super-powers and will undoubtedly see it in the next ensuing ones.
The US has followed the Monroe Doctrine as policy for 150 years. In essence, we view the Western Hemisphere as "ours". For this reason, after WWII, we created the School of the Americas, a counterinsurrgency military academy designed to ensure that our neighbors didn't turn communist. The graduates of this academy went home to their various countries and formed secret police, or death squads. They kidnapped, tortured and killed suspected dissidents. Morally, this is reprehensible. But politically, this policy contained Communism in Cuba and maintained US preeminance in this hemispere throughout the Cold War.
Today, the forgotten war is the war on drugs. Many observers believe we are seeing a "correction" or evolution in the system. As Colombia regains security with peace treaties for the AUC paramilitaries and the terrorist ELN, they are marginalizing FARC. At the same time, aerial eradication efforts, coupled with broad (village wide) crop subsudy programs, as well as the Colombian government's laudible accomplishment of placing police officers in every municipality; has had the effect of etending the government's reach into rural Colombia and raising the cost of cultivation.
Regrettably, nothing happens in a vacuum, and most of us expect a corresponding increase in hectares under coca cultivation in Bolivia and Peru. The impact of the drug trade in "host or source" countries is tremendous and tragic.
In Colombia we saw Escobar's Medellin cartel decimate the professional class, spefically the judges and politicians with his "silver or lead" (bribe or bullet) policy.
While it is natural (in political terms) for the most powerful states to dominate weaker ones, it is not moral, worse, it is not generally even acknowledged in America. America is the greatest country in the world, but to pretend it is 100% benevolent is academically dishonest.

Answer 3

Why I have the perfect example: -

The Banana Republic would go into Nicargua and sell bananas for a lower price than the natives; all of the people of Nicargua would buy bananas from the Banana Republic but instead of putting the money back into Nicargua's economy the money would be put into America's economy; worsening and putting Nicargua's economy in trouble

Answer 4

by giving them low-paying jobs and labeling them all as "hispanic" when that only applies to someone from "hispaniola", which also, no longer exists.

Answer 5

yeah, US made people lazy, taught the leaders to take bribes, created mafia and gave them poppy seeds.