Argue on the effects of US foreign policy on Latin America

What is foreign policy? We can think of it on several levels, as “the goals that a state’s officials seek to attain abroad, the values that give rise to those objectives, and the means or instruments used to pursue them.”^[1] This definition highlights some of the key topics in U.S. foreign policy, such as national goals abroad and the manner in which the United States tries to achieve them. Note too that we distinguish foreign policy, which is externally focused, from domestic policy, which sets strategies internal to the United States, though the two types of policies can become quite intertwined. So, for example, one might talk about Latino politics as a domestic issue when considering educational policies designed to increase the number of Hispanic Americans who attend and graduate from a U.S. college or university.
U.S. interests in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
are diverse and include economic, political, security, and
humanitarian concerns. Geographic proximity has ensured
strong economic linkages between the United States and
LAC, with the United States a major trading partner and
source of foreign investment for many regional countries.
Free-trade agreements (FTAs) have augmented U.S.
economic relations with 11 countries in the region. LACis
also a large source of U.S. immigration, both authorized
and unauthorized; economic and security conditions are
major factors driving migration trends.
Curbing the flow of illicit drugs fromLAC has been a key
component of U.S.relations with the region for decades.
The flow of illicit drugs—including heroin,
methamphetamine, and fentanyl from Mexico and cocaine
from Colombia—poses risks to U.S. public health and
safety. Since 2000, Colombia has received support through
Plan Colombia and its successor programs.The United
States also has sought to forge partnerships with other
countries to combat drug trafficking and related violence
and to advance citizen security, including through the
Mérida Initiative, begun in 2007 to support Mexico; the
Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI),
begun in 2008; and the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative
(CBSI), begun in 2009.

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