Venezuela in 1902

The Empire, Venezuela and The Roosevelt Corollary

Foreign Blockade

Caricature depicting Cipriano Castro being plucked bare by Britain and Germany, while Uncle Sam looks on (1903)

The RowersBy Rudyard Kipling

"Last night you swore our voyage was done,But seaward still we go.And you tell us now of a secret vowYou have made with an open foe! . . .Our dead they mocked are scarcely cold,Our wounds are bleeding yet--And you tell us now that our strength is soldTo help them press for a debt!”

Published in The Times, Dec. 22, 1902.

Uncle Sam’s change of heart – the Roosevelt Corollary

Cartoon of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, part of Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Policy (