Jason Marzak

We've seen tremendous inroads from China and the hemisphere on the commercial front, on the investment front.

And so this is a strategy that's seeking to use the collective power of the United States government to facilitate more investment into the hemisphere, but investment, of course, for the president that also benefits the American homeland as well.

Well, I think the U.S.

attention to the Western Hemisphere has been in fits and starts over our history.

Looking back 100 years, the U.S.

was not a global superpower.

There were points before that when the U.S.

had a more significant focus on the Western Hemisphere, the

Look at the Monroe Doctrine.

Look at the Roosevelt Corollary to the Doctrine beginning of the last century.

And the Roosevelt Corollary to that was the fact that if things go awry in certain countries that would impact U.S.

interests, that we have the right to intervene and to set things straight.

It wasn't Monroe Doctrine said stay out of the hemisphere.

The Roosevelt Corollary said, actually, we have an opportunity to intervene if we need to do so, right?

Much more kind of on the

On the economic front.

So what we saw then after World War II was, of course, the U.S.

becoming a global superpower and framing relations within the hemisphere from a global perspective.

So the Castro revolution in Cuba, that was framed from a communist – combating communism around the world.

The US interventions in Central America in the 1980s, that was also under President Reagan.