The US Intervention in the Dominican Republic

By 1916 the debt of the Dominican Republic had ballooned to more than 30 million dollars, which was a lot of money in those days economic collapse Brings about political unrest. The US government looks at all this Unrest in the Dominican Republic and are like boy They might not be able to repay all of this additional money that they now owe us. So we do a thing that we're going to do repeatedly from this point forward. I pay for guy and back him not quite yet first we send in the Marines Okay, sorry. Well, we we thought that we could do a better job of doing it eventually. It was it was the long con and by God did it work out,