Carsten-Andreas Schulz is an associate professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies and joint leader of the Latin America program at the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.
In this black-and-white photo, Teddy Roosevelt points to the middle of South America on a map as another man looks at the map from the other side of it. Both men wear suits, ties, and wire-frame glasses.
An illustration shows the legs and shoes of a person with either foot astride the opening of the Panama Canal. The legs are covered in the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag. A container ship is seen entering the canal.
Then-Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks in front of a monument to the late Mexican President Benito Juárez in Mexico City on March 16, 2018.
A 1901 political cartoon depicts an Uncle Sam rooster (large and central wearing a top hat and stars and stripe suit) with small roosters in the Monroe Doctrine-labeled European Coop (left) and smaller roosters labeled with South American country names including Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and others running around free.
