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The Monroe Doctrine has an important corollary today, known as the Roosevelt Corollary, announced by the aggressive President Teddy Roosevelt in 1904.  Under the Roosevelt Corollary the United States may intervene in and occupy any country in Latin America to protect interests of the United States.  Communism remains a threat to the United States in the Latin American countries of Cuba and Venezuela, and in recent years the president of Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) called President Bush the “devil” in a speech given before the United Nations.  In December 2006, Chavez then won a landslide reelection in Venezuela, and promised more socialism for that country and perhaps others in the region.

The Monroe Doctrine has an important corollary today, known as the Roosevelt Corollary, announced by the aggressive President Teddy Roosevelt in 1904.  Under the Roosevelt Corollary the United States may intervene in and occupy any country in Latin America to protect interests of the United States.  Communism remains a threat to the United States in the Latin American countries of Cuba and Venezuela, and in recent years the president of Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) called President Bush the “devil” in a speech given before the United Nations.  In December 2006, Chavez then won a landslide reelection in Venezuela, and promised more socialism for that country and perhaps others in the region.

=== India ===

=== British India ===

 

In India, the story is of British imperialism followed by Indian nationalism and independence.  Beginning as early as the 1600s, the British established trading posts in India.  When the Mughal empire weakened in the 1700s, British influence (especially the East India Company) became more influential.  By the early 1800s British dominance over the subcontinent was immense.  The British imposed rules that limited the internal operations of the Indian economy, and the British decimated the local Indian industry in handmade textiles by flooding the market with cheap manufactured clothing from Britain.  A famine resulted when the British displaced many farmers in India through economic changes similar to what happened in Africa, with cash-crop and big business plantation techniques destroying small farms.

In India, the story is of British imperialism followed by Indian nationalism and independence.  Beginning as early as the 1600s, the British established trading posts in India.  When the Mughal empire weakened in the 1700s, British influence (especially the East India Company) became more influential.  By the early 1800s British dominance over the subcontinent was immense.  The British imposed rules that limited the internal operations of the Indian economy, and the British decimated the local Indian industry in handmade textiles by flooding the market with cheap manufactured clothing from Britain.  A famine resulted when the British displaced many farmers in India through economic changes similar to what happened in Africa, with cash-crop and big business plantation techniques destroying small farms.