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{{Short description|Cooperation of the states of the Americas}}
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{{other uses|Pan-American (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Americas (orthographic projection) blank.svg|280px|thumb|right|The [[Americas]]]]
'''Pan-Americanism''' is a [[pan-nationalist]] movement that seeks to create,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Breuilly |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Breuilly |title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism |date=7 March 2013 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-164425-2 |page=672 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Oxford_Handbook_of_the_History_of_Na/IlNoAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA672&printsec=frontcover |access-date=31 August 2025 |chapter=34}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Halikiopoulou |editor1-first=Daphne |editor2-last=Vasilopoulou |editor2-first=Sofia |title=Nationalism and Globalisation: Conflicting Or Complementary? |date=March 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-63599-1 |page=43 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nationalism_and_Globalisation/LmGpAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA43&printsec=frontcover |access-date=31 August 2025}}</ref> encourage, and organize relationships, an association (a Union), and cooperation among the states of the [[Americas]], through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means. The term Pan-Americanism was first used by the New York ''[[Evening Post (New York)|Evening Post]]'' in 1882 when referring to [[James G. Blaine|James G. Blaine’s]] proposal for a conference of American states in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]], gaining more popularity after the first conference in 1889.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Lockey |first=Joseph Byrne |title=Pan-Americanism: its beginnings |date=1970 |publisher=Arno Press |isbn=978-0-405-02034-6 |series=American Imperialism |location=New York}}</ref> Through international conferences, Pan-Americanism embodies the spirit of cooperation to create and ratify treaties for the betterment in the Americas. Since 1826, the Americas have evolved the international conferences from an idea of revolutionary [[Simón Bolívar|Simon Bolivar]] to the creation of an inter-America organization with the founding of the [[Organization of American States]].<ref name=":5" /> 

==History==
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Following the [[American Revolutionary War|independence of the United States of America]] in 1776 and the [[Haitian Revolution|independence of Haiti]] in 1804, the [[Spanish American wars of independence|struggle for independence]] after 1810 by the nations of [[Hispanic America]] evoked a sense of unity, especially in [[South America]], where, under [[Simón Bolívar]] in the north and [[José de San Martín]] in the south, there were co-operative efforts.<ref name=":2" /> [[Francisco Morazán]] briefly headed a [[Federal Republic of Central America]], a union between [[El Salvador]], [[Panama]], [[Honduras]], and [[Nicaragua]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Karnes |first=Thomas L. |title=The failure of union: Central America 1824 - 1960 |year=2012 |orig-date=1961 |publisher=Univ. of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-3614-9 |location=Chapel Hill, NC}}</ref> Early South American Pan-Americanists were also inspired by the American Revolutionary War, in which a suppressed and colonized society struggled, united, and gained independence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Padilla |first=Ezequiel |date=1954 |title=The Meaning of Pan-Americanism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20031026 |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=270–281 |doi=10.2307/20031026 |jstor=20031026 |issn=0015-7120|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In the United States, [[Henry Clay]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]] set forth the principles of Pan-Americanism in the early 19th century by advocating for Latin American independence, with Jefferson's Governor of Louisiana, [[James Wilkinson]], suggesting an alliance between the independent nations of [[Mexico]], [[Cuba]], and [[Peru]] with the US against [[Napoleon]] and [[Spain]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Latin America, the United States, and the inter-American system |date=1980 |publisher=Westview Press |isbn=978-0-89158-874-0 |editor-last=Martz |editor-first=John D. |series=Westview special studies on Latin America and the Caribbean |location=Boulder, Colo |editor-last2=Schoultz |editor-first2=Lars}}</ref> Soon after the [[Spanish American wars of independence]] drew to a close, in 1823, [[James Madison]] and the US government declared through the [[Monroe Doctrine]] a new policy concerning interference by [[Europe]] in the affairs of the [[Americas]] by stopping any future European conquest or reconquest of the newly independent Latin American countries.<ref name=":3" />

In the 19th century, South American military [[nationalism]] came to the fore, making Pan-Americanism goals seemingly impossible for the Americans. [[Venezuela]] and [[Ecuador]] withdrew in 1830 from [[Gran Colombia]], [[Federal Republic of Central America|the Central American Federation]] collapsed in 1838 as the union fell into a civil war, [[Argentina]] and [[Brazil]] fought continually over [[Uruguay]], all three combined in the [[Paraguayan War]] (1865–1870) to defeat [[Paraguay]], and [[Chile]] defeated [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]] in the [[War of the Pacific]] (1879–1883).<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schenoni |first=Luis L. |date=2021 |title=Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45380812 |journal=American Journal of Political Science |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=405–421 |jstor=45380812 |issn=0092-5853}}</ref>

However, during that period, Pan-Americanism existed in the form of a series of Inter-American Conferences. These conferences were a passion project for [[Simón Bolívar|Simon Bolivar]], who wanted to create an international assembly that houses representatives from Spain's old colonies.<ref name=":2" /> On December 7, 1824, Bolivar invited the newly independent colonies of Spain, as well as the US and [[Brazil]], to participate in an Assembly of Plenipotentiaries that would be held in [[Panama]] on June 22, 1826.<ref name=":2" /> However, only Mexico, Peru, [[Colombia]], and Central America sent delegates to the congress, as the others sent delegates too late and Brazil was at war with [[Argentina]].<ref name=":2" /> The US planned on sending delegates but one died before reaching and the other arrived too late for the assembly. The [[Congress of Panama|Panama Congress of 1824]] ended with 31 treaties, including mutual defense between American nations, the abolition of slavery, commercial trade, and no foreign nation could impede on the sovereignty of another nation.<ref name=":2" /> 

The following conference was not held until 1847 when fears of Spain retaking Ecuador and other former colonies prompted Latin American countries to do another congress in Lima, Peru. Only Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, and Chile sent representatives.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Inman |first=Samuel |title=Inter-American conferences, 1826-1954 : History and problems |publisher=The University Press of Washington D.C. |year=1965}}</ref> Mexico and the US did not send delegates because of the [[Mexican–American War]]. The conference created four treaties, including mutual defense, reduced tariffs, and rules of war, but the congresses of the countries refused to ratify the treaties.<ref name=":5" /> 

In 1856, the third congress was held in [[Santiago|Santiago, Chile]]. Initiated by US [[expansionism]] after the US efforts to try and economically annex the [[Galápagos Islands|Galapagos Islands]] from [[Ecuador]] and American [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker's]] [[Filibuster (military)|filibustering]] expedition in Nicaragua, which saw Walker bring back slavery to Nicaragua and made English its official language.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Reza |first=Germán A. de la |date=2019-02-03 |title=As confederações como dispositivo de equilíbrio de poder: o Tratado Continental de Santiago (1856) |url=http://www.revistapassagens.uff.br/index.php/Passagens/article/view/231/217 |journal=Passagens: Revista Internacional de História Política e Cultura Jurídica |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=91–110 |doi=10.15175/1984-2503-201911106|doi-access=free }}</ref> On September 15, 1856, the Continental Treaty of Santiago sought to curb US expansion in Latin America, and was quickly signed by Ecuador, Peru, and other Latin American countries.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Nuermberger |first=Gustave A. |date=1940 |title=The Continental Treaties of 1856: An American Union "Exclusive of the United States" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2507478 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=32–55 |doi=10.2307/2507478 |jstor=2507478 |issn=0018-2168|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 1856 also saw the Congress of Washington where US representatives to Mexico, Colombia, [[Costa Rica]], Honduras, El Salvador, [[Guatemala]], and Venezuela called for an alliance between all the countries south of the [[Rio Grande]] in [[Texas]] and secure aid for the fight against William Walker, though never ratified.<ref name=":7" /> 

The last congress to be held before the first [[International Conference of American States]] was in [[Lima|Lima, Peru]] on November 12, 1864. Plans to assemble started in 1861 when Spain annexed the Dominican Republic and signed a treaty with [[France]] and [[England]] to send troops to Mexico to recollect their debts.<ref name=":5" /> The objective was to discuss defense, boundaries, commerce, mail services, population data, and how to settle conflicts with arbitration. While Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela Guatemala, Ecuador, and El Salvador all attended.<ref name=":5" /> Brazil, Mexico, [[Uruguay]], [[Paraguay]], Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica did not.<ref name=":5" /> The congress wrote two treaties: The Treaty of Union and Alliance, which would create an alliance between the nine nations that participated, and the Treaty for the Conservation of Peace, which dealt with mandatory arbitration, reciprocal trade, navigation, and mail exchange. Like most of the congressional treaties, the latter went unratified by the states.<ref name=":5" /> 

The first modern Pan-American gathering was the or [[First International Conference of American States]] held in 1889-90 at [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C]], which was first proposed by [[James G. Blaine]].<ref name=":8" /> Blaine was an advocate for bringing peace to the Americas and wanted a strong commercial relationship between the Americas that would enable the US to compete with European manufacturers.<ref name=":8" /> All countries invited joined the conference, except for the [[Dominican Republic]] because a treaty of arbitration and commercial reciprocity between the United States and the Dominican Republic in 1884 was never ratified by the United States, leading the Dominican to state they were not at liberty to enter a new discussion.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Lockey |first=Joseph Byrne |title=Essays in Pan-Americanism |publisher=University of California |year=1939 |location=Berkeley |publication-date=1939}}</ref> The delegates met on October 2, 1889, with Blaine’s introduction declaring that the United States believes in cooperation and friendship not force, and invited the delegates to go around the United States to see the real America, which the delegates accepted.<ref name=":8" /> Treaties for [[arbitration]] of disputes and adjustment of [[tariffs]] were adopted, and the [[Commercial Bureau of the American Republics]], which later became the [[Organization of American States|Pan-American Union]], was established.<ref name=":8" /> 

Subsequent meetings were held in various South American cities.<ref>{{cite book | title = Pan-American Visions: Woodrow Wilson in the Western Hemisphere, 1913–1921 | author = Gilderhus, Mark T. | publisher = University of Arizona Press | location = Tucson | year = 1986 | isbn = 0-8165-0936-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/panamericanvisio00gild}}</ref> In [[Mexico City]] (1901), [[Rio de Janeiro]] (1906), [[Buenos Aires]] (1910), and many more. In 1933, the [[Montevideo Convention|seventh]], and one of the most important conferences was held in [[Montevideo|Montevideo, Uruguay.]] The 30’s was filled with instability as the [[Wall Street crash of 1929|Stock Market Crash]] plummeted export prices, oppressive dictators, and brewing tensions between states.<ref name=":5" /> All 21 states sent their delegates, except for Costa Rica, who declined because they did not want to pay for a delegate in such a terrible economic time. The conference issued that the congress had to immediately sign five peace pacts, including the [[Kellogg–Briand Pact|Kellogg Pact]] which would outlaw wars.<ref name=":5" /> The conference also brought up the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States treaty, which would not allow any state to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another state, and was adopted unanimously and countries quickly ratified it.<ref name=":5" /> 

In the 20th century, US President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] embraced a robust formulation of Pan-Americanism during [[World War II]] through the establishment of the [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx00pQIkclMC&q=ociaa&pg=PA166 ''Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda'' Deborah R. Vargas. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2012 pp. 152–155] {{ISBN|978-0-8166-7316-2}} OCIAA (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs), FDR's Good Neighbor Policy, CBS, Viva America, La Cadena de las Americas on google.books.com.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ql_sDwAAQBAJ&dq=CBS+Pan+American+Orchestra+Alfredo+Antonini&pg=PT74 ''Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America''. Han, Benjamin M. Rutgers University Press, 2022 Pan-Americanism, La Cadena de las Americas, Edmund Chester, William S. Paley and the Carlos Manuel De Cespedes National Order of Merit on Google Books]</ref><ref> In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting. Salley Bedell Smith. Random House Trade Publications, New York, USA, 2002, Chapter 18 {{ISBN|978-0-307-78671--5}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=W4IgALTXtH4C&dq=William+Paley+La+Cadena+de+las+Americas&pg=PT163 William S. Paley and La Cadena de las Americas on Books.google.com See Chapter 18]</ref><ref>''Time'' – Radio: La Cadena, June 1, 1942 [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790530-1,00.html William S. Paley, La Cadena de las Americas on Content.time.com]</ref>  Following his [[Good Neighbor Policy]], Roosevelt endeavored to foster the development of peaceful commercial and cultural relations between the American Republics through the skillful use of [[cultural diplomacy]].<ref>Roosevelt, Franklin D., [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16152#axzz1kZmKEFYg  "Executive Order 8840 Establishing the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs"], July 30, 1941. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]</ref> FDR would also go on to say “the essential true qualities of a true Pan-Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor.”<ref name=":5" />  After the Montevideo conference, he defined the new US policy as now being against armed intervention, ushering a new era of foreign policy towards Latin America.<ref name=":5" />

The ninth conference held in [[Bogotá|Bogota, Colombia]], in 1948, saw the creation of the [[Organization of American States|Organization of American States (OAS)]] and the [[Pact of Bogota]].<ref name=":5" /> The OAS aimed to strengthen peace, ensure peaceful disputes, organize common action against aggression, seek solutions to political and economic problems, and promote economic and social development throughout. The Pact of Bogota stated that states must resolve disputes peacefully and try to settle their disputes amongst themselves before taking it to the [[United Nations|UN]] security council.<ref name=":5" /> The tenth conference in [[Caracas|Caracas, Venezuela]], in 1954, would be the last conference under the name Inter-American Conference, although the OAS continues to hold special meetings to discuss wars outside of the Americas or issues that have common interest to the member states.<ref name=":5" /> The OAS has a general assembly that is similar to the one Inter-American conference had and met every five years, but updated this policy in 1971 to meet once a year.<ref name=":5" />

==Evolution==
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[[File:"International Union of American Republics" logo in 1909 - from publication Cacao (1909) (IA cacao00inte) (page 1 crop).jpg|thumb|Emblem that was already used in Pan-Americanism in 1909]]
The intended liberalization of commercial intercourse did not occur, but collaboration was extended to a series of areas, such as health ([[Pan-American Health Organization]], established 1902), geography and history ([[Pan-American Institute of Geography and History]], 1928), [[child protection]] and [[children's rights]] (International American Institute for the Protection of Children, 1927), rights of the woman ([[Inter-American Commission of Women]], 1928), indigenous policies (Inter-American Indigenist Institute, 1940), agriculture (Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences), collective continental defense ([[Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance]], 1947), economic aid ([[Inter-American Development Bank]], 1959), infrastructure works ([[Pan-American Highway]]) and [[peacekeeping]] (the [[Inter-American Peace Force]] after the [[Dominican Civil War#US intervention|invasion of the Dominican Republic]], 1965), and human rights ([[Inter-American Court of Human Rights]], 1979).

The American states also adopted a series of diplomatic and political rules, which were not always respected or fulfilled, governing relations between the countries like arbitration of disputes, peaceful resolution of conflicts, military non-intervention, equality among the member states of each organism, and in their mutual relations, decisions through resolutions approved by the majority, the recognition of diplomatic asylum, the Private International Law Code ([[Bustamante Code]], 1928), the inter-American system of human rights ([[American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man]], 1948; [[Inter-American Commission on Human Rights]], 1959; and the 2001 [[Inter-American Democratic Charter]] of the [[Organization of American States]]).

== Pan-Americanism and the Monroe Doctrine ==
Serving as a core principle of U.S. foreign policy in the 1800s, [[James Monroe|United States President James Monroe]] announced in 1823 the establishment of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], which implied that any further imperial actions into the Western Hemisphere by European countries would be unilaterally opposed by the United States.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Rausch |first=Jane M |date=2018 |title=Santiago Pérez Triana (1858-1916) and the Pan-Americanization of the Monroe Doctrine |url=https://doaj.org/article/f1203cb59dec45449deb5133ce2269cc |journal=Historia y Sociedad |volume=35 |pages=224–225 |via=DOAJ}}</ref> Subjugation under former imperial and colonial rule was a shared experience for most American nations, and this formed an important pillar of the Monroe Doctrine and consequently Pan-Americanism, where there was relatively unified opposition toward further inward imperial conquest by European nations.<ref name=":0" />

Although the Monroe Doctrine originally declared U.S. opposition to new European expansion in the Americas, the United States used its increased influence in the region to promote its own strategic interests. Throughout the 1800s, the Monroe Doctrine was invoked multiple times in the Americas, including during the [[Texas annexation|annexation of Texas]] (1845), the [[Mexican–American War|Mexican-U.S. War]] (1845–1848), and the 1861 Spanish Invasion of Santo Domingo.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tucker |first=George |title=Monroe Doctrine: Concise History of Its Origin and Growth |publisher=George B. Reed |year=2015 |orig-date=1885 |isbn=978-1340396367 |location=Boston |pages=116–118}}</ref> In almost all cases, U.S. influence increased in the region and the U.S. government's policy toward Latin America became more expansionist in nature.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Scarfi |first=Juan |date=September 2020 |title=Denaturalizing the Monroe Doctrine: The Rise of Latin American Legal Anti-Imperialism in the Face of the Modern US and Hemispheric Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2431746834 |journal=Leiden Journal of International Law |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=541–555 |doi=10.1017/S092215652000031X |id={{ProQuest|2431746834}} |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1904, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] added a "Corollary" to the Doctrine, which would later become known as the [[Roosevelt Corollary]]. Under this new interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, opposition to European expansion continued, but in the event of "bad behavior" on the part of Latin American countries, "is was [now] the obligation of the United States to intervene in order to prevent European action."<ref name=":0" />

Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats were also pursuing a contrasting policy of Pan-Americanism—a political movement that sought to promote the respect of national sovereignty, continental cooperation and further integration. These conflicting foreign policy objectives launched by the U.S. government created intense discourse among U.S. and Latin American leaders regarding hemispheric anti-interventionist policies and doctrines at future [[Pan-American Conference]]s.<ref name=":0" />

Despite the push by U.S. diplomats for further integrated and unified American continents, the U.S. government countered attempts by Latin Americans to enshrine the principles behind the Monroe Doctrine and Corollary in international law, instead favoring a form of [[American exceptionalism|American]] (United States) [[American exceptionalism|exceptionalism]] that allowed continued intervention by the United States in Latin American affairs to protect U.S. interests.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Grandin |first=Greg |date=February 2012 |title=The Liberal Traditions in the Americas: Rights, Sovereignty, and the Origins of Liberal Multilateralism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23309883 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=117 |issue=1 |pages=84–85 |doi=10.1086/ahr.117.1.68 |jstor=23309883|url-access=subscription }}</ref> While many Latin American countries and intellectuals immediately criticized the Corollary and viewed U.S. foreign policy regarding national sovereignty as hypocritical, Washington continued to push back against any formal attempts by countries in Latin America to establish a standard interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine and its Corollary—that is, any attempt to "Pan-Americanize" the Monroe Doctrine and apply national sovereignty rights equally to all countries in the Americas.<ref name=":1" />

== Latin American Responses to the Monroe Doctrine ==
During and after their wars of independence, the Latin American countries would look towards Europe, mostly [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], for aid, but still feared colonization or recolonization by European powers. After the [[Monroe Doctrine]] was announced in December 1823, there was some mixed reception among the Latin American countries. It took [[Mexico City]] two months to respond, saying the United States intended on defending and maintaining the independence of [[Mexico]] and [[South America]] and they happily approved this message. Although rarely referenced after that, Mexico was still grateful that the US was trying to defend their sovereignty from Europe.<ref name=":2" />

The [[Federal Republic of Central America]] also barely responded to the doctrine, only acknowledging that the US and Great Britain had recognized their independence and would protect them from European countries trying to conquer them, and acknowledging that the US has some special interests in Latin America, but still wants it to be independent. Though their responses to Monroe Doctrine may show a neutral or mild approval of the doctrine.<ref name=":2" /> 

[[Haiti]], gaining its independence from [[France]] in 1804 through a [[Haitian Revolution|slave revolt]], was not recognized by the US government and therefore it was believed that the US would not invoke the Monroe Doctrine if Haiti were invaded. Haiti responded by congratulating the US for extending its hand to Latin America and creating better relations with them. However, still discontent that the US hadn’t recognized Haiti, they continued by saying Haiti is no different than any republics in Latin America, it was as or more stable than other countries, and have proven their strength and sovereignty through terrible conflicts.<ref name=":2" />

Vice President of [[Colombia]], [[Francisco de Paula Santander]], was very friendly towards the US, calling them Colombia’s powerful ally and grateful that the US was taking a high stand to protect Latin America. Though, like most Latin American countries, they predicted that it would be Great Britain primarily championing the rights of the American countries with the US being a secondary aid.<ref name=":2" />

[[Chile]] was one of the countries to be displeased with the doctrine, saying that the doctrine wasn’t going to help anyone but the US. [[Brazil]] and the [[United Provinces of the Río de la Plata|United Provinces of Rio de la Plata]] also had mixed feelings about the doctrine as Brazil was not officially recognized by the US and the United Provinces and conflicting views about if it was good or bad.<ref name=":2" /> 

[[Simón Bolívar|Simon Bolivar]] also was opposed to the Monroe Doctrine, saying that it would not help Pan-Americanism as it would be used as a tool by the US to expand and dominate the Americas. Although the doctrine would support the independence of Latin American countries, Bolivar believed the doctrine would also benefit the US’s interests.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Castro-Klarén |first=Sara |date=2003 |title=Framing Pan-Americanism: Simón Bolívar's Findings |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41949370 |journal=CR: The New Centennial Review |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=25–53 |jstor=41949370 |issn=1532-687X}}</ref> 

==Economic impact==
In 2019, 15.1 and 14.6 percent of all US imports were exchanged with Canada and Mexico, respectively.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-are-top-us-imports/ | title=What Are the Top US Imports? | last=Sarah | first=Hansen | date=2022 | website=Investopedia.com | access-date=Dec 31, 2022 }}</ref> A significant portion of these imports involved food products.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd | title=Food Products Exports By United States | author=<!--Not stated--> | date=2020 | website=worldbank.org | access-date=Dec 30, 2022 }}</ref> At 76%, the vast majority of all Canadian exports in 2021 were shipped South into the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://oec.world/en/profile/country/can | title=Canada Exports By Country | author=<!--Not stated--> | date=2021 | website=oec.world | access-date=Dec 30, 2022 }}</ref> Of these exports, goods such as lumber, automotive and aircraft components, aluminum, wheat, and vegetable oils were among the top exported commodities.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://oec.world/en/profile/country/can | title=Canada Country Economic Profile | author=<!--Not stated--> | date=2021 | website=oec.world | access-date=Dec 30, 2022 }}</ref> Similarly, 76.4% of all Mexican exports, such as computers, cars, and crude petroleum, were destined for the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://oec.world/en/profile/country/mex | title=Mexico Country Economic Profile | author=<!--Not stated--> | date=2021 | website=oec.world | access-date=Dec 30, 2022}}</ref> In 2017, 12 and 10 percent of all US exports were exchanged with Canada and Mexico, respectively.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-are-top-us-exports-0/ | title=What Are the Top U.S. Exports? | last=Hansen | first=Sarah | date=2018 | website=investopedia.com | access-date=Dec 30, 2022}}</ref>

==Congresses and conferences==
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* 1826 in [[Panama]]. Congreso Anfictiónico de Panamá [[Congress of Panama]]. Organized by [[Simón Bolívar]].
* 1847–1848 Congreso de Lima
* 1856–1857 Congreso de Santiago
* 1864–1864 Congreso de Lima
* 1889/90 in [[Washington D.C.]] [[International Conference of American States]]. The day of this meeting, 14 April, has been celebrated since 1930 as [[Pan American Day]].
* 1901/02 in Mexico City
* 1906 in [[Rio de Janeiro]]
* 1910 in Buenos Aires
* 1922 in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] [[Pan-American Conference of Women]].
* 1923 in [[Santiago, Chile]]
* 1928 in [[Havana]]
* 1933 in [[Montevideo]]
* 1936 in [[Buenos Aires]] (Peace Conference)
* 1938 in [[Lima]]
* [[1942 Rio de Janeiro Conference|1942 in Rio de Janeiro]] (conference of [[Foreign minister|Ministers of Foreign Affairs]])
* 1948 in [[Bogotá]]
* 1949 founded Office of Latin American Education, which became the [[Organization of Ibero-American States]]
* 1954 in [[Caracas]]
* 2nd Latin American Congress of Education took place in [[Quito]]
* 1967 [[Buenos Aires]]
* 1969 [[Viña del Mar]]
* 2005 [[Panama City]], [[Panama]] – Congreso de Escritores y Escritoras de Centroamérica to create the Federación Centroamericana. Sponsored by the Asociación de Escritores de Panamá.
* 2006 Panama City, Panama – Sponsored by the President of Panama, [[Martín Torrijos]] – [[Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico's Independence]]

==See also==
* [[Latin America]]
* [[List of conflicts in the Americas]]
* [[North American Union]]
* [[2008 Andean diplomatic crisis|2008 South American diplomatic crisis]]
* [[Panhispanism]]
* [[Patria Grande]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Aguilar, Alonzo. "Pan-Americanism from Monroe to the Present," Monthly Review Press, New York." (1968).
* Aken, Mark J. van. ''Pan-Hispanism: Its Origin and Development to 1866''. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1959.
* Bryne, A. (2019). "[[doi:10.1017/S1537781419000422|The Potential of Flight: U.S. Aviation and Pan-Americanism During the Early Twentieth Century.]]" ''The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era''.
* {{cite book | title = Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere | author = Gonzalez, Robert Alexander | publisher = University of Texas Press | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780292723252 | url-access = registration | url = https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477326671/ }}
* {{cite book | title = The Pan-American Dream | author = Harrison, Lawrence E. | publisher = Westview P | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-8133-3470-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/panamericandream00lawr }}
* {{cite book | title = The Western Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline | url = https://archive.org/details/westernhemispher00whit | author = Whitaker, Arthur P. | publisher = Ithaca | year = 1954 }} A study of Pan-Americanism as an idea and of how time has destroyed much of the buttressing hemispheric relations.

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