The slogan βGringo, go homeβ in Latin America is not rhetorical excess; it is the distillation of two centuries of experience.
The U.S. has never regarded Latin America as a distant region. On the contrary, it has long treated it as its own backyard. This worldview even had an official doctrine: the Monroe Doctrine. On paper, it promised protection from European intervention. In reality, it conveyed a far simpler message: This hemisphere is mine.
At first, this claim was implicit.
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