During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States was the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere. The European nations gave the United States the right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere and allowed the United States to do whatever it wanted. The United States took this newly granted power and abused it. The United States intervened in many Latin American countries and imposed its policies on them against their will. A perfect example of this aggression is what happened in the Dominican Republic in 1904. The United States intervened in this sovereign nation and took control of its economy and customs. A memorandum from Francis B. Loomis, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, to the Secretary of State outlines U.S. goals, interests, attitudes, and assumptions in the Dominican Republic and the feelings of U.S. policymakers toward Latin America during this period. period of time. The United States had a wide variety of objectives and interests in the Dominican Republic and Latin America. In the Dominican Republic, Americans had invested heavily in Dominican industries. Americans invested six million dollars in the sugar industry alone (Loomis 2). And “the total amount of American investment in the Dominican Republic, of a major and active kind, is estimated to be worth about twenty million dollars (Loomis 2). Additionally, many American citizens owned and operated many large and important plantations and railroads in the Dominican Republic. American citizens owned and operated 60 miles of a major rail line (Loomis 3). Also in Sosua, the American United Fruit Company owned approximately twenty thousand acres of land which... according to the map... the power in Latin America. The United States has not engaged in the classic direct imperialism that is colonialism, but has engaged in indirect imperialism focused on control and intervention in the economic and social institutions of Latin America. The United States was only concerned with its own economic well-being. They didn't care about the suffering that the people of Latin America were going through. The United States only cared that its economic interests prosper in Latin America. The policies undertaken by the US government clearly demonstrate this. Roosevelt's corollary policies and Taft's dollar diplomacy only mention US interests. There is nothing that concerns the interests and well-being of Latin Americans. Many people have suffered because of the United States' policy of supporting and protecting only rich and powerful corporations.