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Okay, you wanted to talk about the U.S. and Latin America. Spill it.

Okay, so here's the deal. The U.S. wanted a more convenient canal for the Spanish-American War, so they decided to try and use the Isthmus of Panama, one of their ideal canals.

Okay, so what else?

So they tried to control it and all that, but the Colombians wouldn't let them. Roosevelt was impatient in bargaining, so he decided to built a canal across Panama called the Panama Canal.

But you forgot that there was a widespread disease in Panama. Two, called malaria and yellow fever. A Cuban and English doctor both found out that both diseases came from two types of mosquito.

Although yellow fever got wiped out, and malaria was reduced in 1906. Also, following that, Teddy Roosevelt applied his "big stick" policy in Latin America.