Latin Americans were not happy with the economic imperialism; Cubans resented the Monroe Doctrine, they believed that the U.S. did not view them as self sufficient. The Roosevelt Corollary caused many protests, although this did not affect the Americans. They were especially not supportive of that Panama Canal.⁸
Fransisco Garcia Calderon, "Imperialism of Decadence": From the excessive tension of wills, from the elementary state of culture, from the perpetual unrest of life, from the harshness of the industrial struggle, anarchy and violence will be born in the future. In a hundred years men will seek in vain for the "American soul," the "genius of America," elsewhere than in the undisciplined force or the violence which ignores moral laws...Essential points of difference separate the two Americas. Differences of language and therefore of spirit; the difference between Spanish Catholicism and multiform Protestantism of the Anglo-Saxons; between the Yankee individualism and the omnipotence of the State natural to the nations of the South. In their origin, as in their race, we find fundamental antagonism; the evolution of the North is slow and obedient to the lessons of time , to the influences of custom; the history of the southern peoples is full of revolutions, rich with dreams of an unattainable perfection.⁴