In the years leading up to the First World War, the United States and Mexican governments competed for political influence in Central America. As a result, the U.S. Government intervened more directly in Nicaraguan affairs in two separate, but related, incidents in 1911 and 1912, to ensure the rule of a government friendly to U.S. political and commercial interests and preserve political stability in Central America. Although officials within the administration of President William. Taft saw themselves as intervening to ensure good government; many Nicaraguans became increasingly alarmed at what seemed to be a foreign takeover of their political, banking, and railroad systems. Nicaraguan and U.S. representatives signed a treaty on June 6, 1911, which included U.S. Government and private bank approval for the post of customs collector. In a second, short-term loan agreement.
For many years, Honduras an American nation with a population of 9.3 million people has had a close relationship with the United States. In the 1980s, the U.S had used the country as a base for its operations in counter Soviet influence in Central America. The reason why the country continues to host the U.S military and also continued cooperation on several security concerns. Due to the implementation of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement, there has been a long-standing and rapid growth in trade and investment linkage.
Honduras has faced a fair number of challenges, more especially domestic challenges. The country has fragile democratic institutions with insufficient policies on current growth rates in economics and social welfares. These policies have been ineffective in reducing widespread poverty that has seen the country experience high violent crime rates in the universe. This challenge explains the periodic instability experienced in the country that has caused high levels of emigration and displacement.
Since 2014, when several migrants and asylum-seekers arrived in the U.S border, the U.S policymakers devoted more to its neighbours; Honduras and its Central American neighbours. After the surge, Obama’s administration working for the interest of its people and with the Central government enhanced and improved the security, strengthening governance that in turn promoted economic growth and prosperity in the region. This led to the launching of a new whole government Strategy for Engagement in Central America by the Obama administration, which also increased the foreign assistance support.
Every nation’s primary goal is to seek and preserve peaceful coexistence with its neighbours. This is achieved by limiting immigration to their borders from the people intending to escape their homes or country due to violence. The president of the U.S has a substantial and important role in developing foreign policy. Between 1909-1913 during the Taft Administration, the investor’s interests were protected at the expense of helping end the Diaz regime that was characterized with brutalities.
A hundred years ago, the U.S president William Howard Taft and the Mexican president Porfirio Diaz met for the first time, and the last, in their respective territories which were unusual in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The letter shows that U.S president Taft was worried about the death of the 80-year-old Mexican president that would spike the revolution from the selection of those that succeed him. In the letter, he continues to say that in Mexico, Americans have about $2,000,000 capital investment, and he hoped for the older man’s official life be extended beyond his own life that the problem caused in case of revolution would be the ultimate trouble in the times of utmost difficulty.