text: in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. . . . I helped to purify Nicaragua for the interna- tional banking house of Brown Brothers.. . . I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras ‘right’ for American fruit companies in 1903.” 75. From the end of the eighteenth century up to the 197Os, of the 200 United States military hostilities on foreign soil, close to 100 have taken place in the Carib- bean area north of the Panama Canal. The United States has accroached to itself the right summarily to dismiss Governments. In true imperialist fashion the United States has concocted and disseminated the appropriate mythologies to justify its ludicrous claims that history has foisted upon it ‘the responsibility, in the words of President Theodore Roosevelt, “to exercise the power of an international police”. This bankrupt thesis entitles the United States to intimidate Libya and denigrate its leader; it permits the provocation of Syria and Iran; it permits threats against Mozambique and Angola and the harassment of the Cuban Government and people. This thesis allows the Reagan Administration to embrace exe- cutions while at the same time excoriating the heroic Palestinian people and our brothers and sisters in South Africa and in Namibia. 76. At this point I should like to draw to the attention of this body a matter of grave concern to the Govern- ment and people of Grenada, based on statements made by the President of the United States in a nationally tele- vised broadcast to the nation last night. 77. Speaking, first of all, some weeks ago before the National Association of Manufacturers, Mr. Reagan stated that Grenada is building a superior air base which 
analysis: The text appears to be a critique of the United States' interventionist policies in the Caribbean region, particularly in Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras. The author highlights the country's historical involvement in shaping the political and economic systems of these countries to serve American interests. The text also references the United States' military interventions in the region and its justification of its actions through the concept of "international police". The focus on the Grenada air base and the President's statements suggests that the text may also touch on issues of national security and international relations.