Pan-Americanism
Pan-AmericanismThe movement towards economic, military, political, and social cooperation among the 21 republics of South, Central, and North America. The first Pan-American conference was held in 1889 in Washington, DC, to encourage inter-American trade as well as the peaceful resolution of conflicts in the region. The seventh conference (Montevideo 1933 ) was important because the USA, in harmony with Franklin D. Roosevelt 's ‘Good Neighbor’ policy, finally adopted the long-espoused Latin American principle of non-intervention, while the conference at Buenos Aires in 1936 adopted a treaty for the peaceful resolution of conflicts between American states. The Conference at Chapultepec ( 1945 ) agreed on a united defence policy for the signatory nations. At the conference held in Bogotá in ...
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