Lots of resources

I returned to the Auraria website and searched , '"United States" and "foreign policy" and Latin America" and found some great sources that really excite me.  There are a lot of books about the evolution of policies towards Latin America.  One book mentioned how the United States has promoted dictators, like Salvador Allende in Chile, and how the United State's policies against drugs have angered President Evo Morales of Bolivia.  One book further said that the United State's anti-drug policies have actually led to the empowerment of drug lords in Columbia and Mexico.  All this is really interesting to me how our laws and beliefs within our country can have such a large affect on others.  I Checked out 3 books that I found very interesting and will proceed to read them before the proposal.  There is so much information on this topic that it encourages me to look at how the U.S.'s has treated it's close, but distant neighbors to the South. Does Latin America have grudges against the U.S. or do they feel luckyto be so close to an economic heavyweight?  Does the emergence of Brazil as a world player change the U.S.'s relationship with Latin America?  I know I need to focus my research, but all these topics really excite me and could make very intriguing argumentative essays.

Schoultz, Lars. Beneath the United States: A History of U.s. Policy Toward Latin America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998. Print.

Marcy, William L. The Politics of Cocaine: How U.s. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America. Chicago, Ill: Lawrence Hill Books, 2010. Print.  

Newfarmer, Richard S. From Gunboats to Diplomacy: New U.s. Policies for Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Print. 

( this last one I'm skeptical on because of it's date of print)