As someone who grew up in the United States, this chapter was very interested to me. It is shocking how little we are actually taught about even the history of our own country. Our government has interfered with so many countries, in Latin America and around the world, and we are barely taught anything about it. The overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala is a good example of this. Jacobo Arbenz was making positive changes in Guatemala, but these changes interfered with trade between the U.S. and Guatemala through the company UCFO. It seems ridiculous to think that the United States overthrew the government of an entire country just for the sake of trading bananas. Another example of the United States meddling in Latin American politics is the Civil War in El Salvador. The U.S. supported the Salvadoran government while several communist states supported the rebel forces. We were never taught about these events in U.S. education even though our government played a large role in them. I am sure that there are many other events such as these that we also never learned about. It appears that the U.S. did not act as a “big brother” in these situations. The responsibility of a big brother would be to help less powerful countries succeed and build strong relationships with them. However, the U.S. appears to have only interfered with these countries for the purpose of only strengthening its own economy, regardless of what happens to the other countries’ governments and citizens.