WI: A lesser amount of American "interventions" took place in Latin America?

An interesting question is if fewer US "interventions" would lead to weaker or stronger states/societies in the region.
At any rate, I suspect a USA that intervened less in late 19th/early 20th century Latin America might develop a less assertive foreign policy overall; if the US didn't protect its "interests" in Haiti, it'd be less likely to do so in China, etc.
 
Haiti might be in better shape... maybe not the richest nation in the Western Hemisphere, but perhaps not the poorest. I think US intervention there really screwed up the legitimacy of the national government and all that by making the Haitian president a figurehead for US military and big business interests. That sort of outweighs all the infrastructure and public works/institutions that the US occupation created.
 
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