Over the years, the united states government has intervened in latin america on behalf of us business and interests.
a. recreational
b. political
c. artistic
d. sports-related

The correct answer is B. Over the years, the United States government has intervened in Latin America on behalf of US business and POLITICAL interests.

The history of American interventions in Latin America begins in 1822 with the affirmation of the region as its sphere of influence and continues with the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, according to which the Spanish-American nations that emerged to independence constituted territory forbidden to the imperial appetites Europeans and, by extension, a natural space of American influence.

In the course of the first three decades of the twentieth century, the United States invaded the countries of the Caribbean Basin thirty-four times: it occupied Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The solid British presence in commercial, financial and infrastructure matters prevented Washington from extending its penetration to South America. In 1933, with the country affected by a deep economic depression, exhausted by the campaign against Sandino in Nicaragua and disturbed by the strong Latin American nationalist movement stimulated by the Mexican Revolution, Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to power who initiated the Good Neighbor policy, withdrew the occupation forces of the Caribbean and announced a policy of non-intervention in Latin America.

When the Cold War started, American interventions beginned again as many Latin American countries had communist groups in its territories. Directly through its armed forces, or indirectly through the CIA and other intelligence systems, the US influenced and intervened in many Latin American governments during this time. A good example of this are the American-led South American anti-communist dictatorial governments of 1970s.

This summary shows that the United States has intervened in Latin America on behalf of its business and political interests.