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In December 1933 Secretary of State Cordell Hull committed the United States to a new policy toward Central and South America. Signing an international accord that declared, "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another," Hull initiated an agenda that was to characterize Roosevelt's presidency. This "Good Neighbor Policy" put an end to the repeated U.S. military interventions in Latin America. Critics of the policy have argued, however, that it was a smokescreen for redoubled economic intervention and exploitation of the region by the United States.
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