Select the correct text in the passage.
Read the excerpt from US president Monroe's speech regarding the new Latin American countries. Which portion of the text expresses the
president's support for the Latin American independence movements?
The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the
American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any European powers. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the
United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this
hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered
and shall not interfere.
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