[1] Blaine hoped that ties between the United States and its southern counterparts would open Latin American markets to US trade.

In the 1820s, Simon Bolivar called for the first Pan-American Conference so that governments of newly liberated former colonies of Spain could collaborate on common issues.

[3] Pan-Americanism refers to the movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America.

Titled the Panama Congress, the countries agreed to unite, convene with each other on a regular basis and provide financial and military backing to the treaty.

The fourth Latin American Conference in November 1864 in Lima, Peru Failed in its attempts to make any agreements regarding the intervention that had taken place by mostly European powers.

At this time, there had been an increased amount of interaction between Latin America and the United States through the actions that the European powers took regarding the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Chincha Islands.