Colombia and the Monroe Doctrine: The Case of the Panama Railroad and U.S. interventions in the Isthmus

Abstract

The construction and operation of the Panama Railroad was one of the most successful process of foreign investment in Latin America during the nineteenth century. This railway, thatwas built to overcoming the difficulties of navigation between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, makes evident the deployment of the Monroe Doctrine on Latin America and theCaribbean, the relationship between the interests of localelites with international powers, and the way how was definethe concept of nation in the nineteenth century.