Read the excerpt from US president Monroe’s speech regarding the new Latin American countries. Whichportion of the text expresses the president's support for the Latin American independence
movements?
The occasion has been judged properfor asserting, as a principle in which the rights andinterests 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 oweit, 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 havenotinterfered and shall not
interfere.